Esther 2:11

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women’s house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

In Context

10Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.

12Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women, twelve months, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with the things for the purifying of the women,)

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Cross References

1 Samuel 17:18and bring these ten cheeses unto the captain of their thousand, and look how thy brethren fare, and take their pledge.

Acts 15:36And after some days Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us return now and visit the brethren in every city wherein we proclaimed the word of the Lord, and see how they fare.

Matthew Henry on Esther 2:2-21

Esther's Advancement; Esther Chosen Queen. ( b. c. 514.) 1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: 3 And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of… Read the whole commentary →

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