And the young woman pleased him and obtained his favor, so he quickly provided her with beauty treatments and the special diet. He assigned to her seven select maidservants from the palace and transferred her with them to the best place in the harem. People Abihail, Ahasuerus, Benjamin, Bigthan, Bigthana, Esther, Hadassah, Hegai, Hege, Jair, Jeconiah, Jehoiachin, Kish, Mordecai, Nebuchadnezzar, Shaashgaz, Shimei, Teresh, VashtiPlaces Babylon, Jerusalem, Media, SusaTopics Advanced, Assigned, Beauty, Belonged, Best, Changeth, Choice, Chosen, Clean, Cosmetics, Favor, Favour, Girl, Harem, Hasteneth, Hers, Immediately, Kind, Kindness, King's, Lady, Maiden, Maidens, Maids, Making, Meet, Moved, Needed, Obtained, Ointments, Palace, Pleased, Portion, Portions, Preferred, Provided, Purification, Purifications, Quickly, Receiveth, Removed, Selected, Servant-girls, Seven, Special, Speedily, Transferred, Treatments, Women, Women's, WonOutline 1. Out of the choice of virgins a queen is to be chosen.5. Mordecai the nursing father of Esther.8. Esther preferred before the rest.12. The manner of purification, and going in to the king.15. Esther, best pleasing the king, is made queen.21. Mordecai, discovering a treason, is recorded in the chronicles.Jump to Previous Advanced Belonged Best Choice Cosmetics Food House Kindness King's Lady Maiden Maidens Maids Meet Moved Obtained Ointments Pleased Portions Preferred Purification Quickly Seven Speedily Women Women's YoungJump to Next Advanced Belonged Best Choice Cosmetics Food House Kindness King's Lady Maiden Maidens Maids Meet Moved Obtained Ointments Pleased Portions Preferred Purification Quickly Seven Speedily Women Women's YoungLibrary Adoption
'As many as received him to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name.' John 1:12. Having spoken of the great points of faith and justification, we come next to adoption. The qualification of the persons is, As many as received him.' Receiving is put for believing, as is clear by the last words, to them that believe in his name.' The specification of the privilege is, to them gave he power to become the sons of God.' The Greek word for power, exousia, signifies …
Thomas Watson—A Body of DivinityEsther
The spirit of the book of Esther is anything but attractive. It is never quoted or referred to by Jesus or His apostles, and it is a satisfaction to think that in very early times, and even among Jewish scholars, its right to a place in the canon was hotly contested. Its aggressive fanaticism and fierce hatred of all that lay outside of Judaism were felt by the finer spirits to be false to the more generous instincts that lay at the heart of the Hebrew religion; but by virtue of its very intensity …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament Parallel Verses NASB: Now the young lady pleased him and found favor with him. So he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and food, gave her seven choice maids from the king's palace and transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.KJV: And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king's house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
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