Ester 2:1

1 Ester se convierte en reina
Una vez que se le pasó el enojo, Jerjes comenzó a pensar en Vasti y en lo que ella había hecho, y también en el decreto que él había firmado.

Ester 2:1 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 2:1

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was
appeased
Which went off with his wine, and so was quickly after, a few days at most, unless this can be understood as after the expedition of Xerxes into Greece, from whence he returned to Shushan, in the seventh year of his reign; and if he is the Ahasuerus here meant, he married Esther that year, ( Esther 2:16 ) and it seems certain, that after his expedition he gave himself up to his amours, and in his way to Sardis he fell in love with his brother's wife, and then with his daughter ^F2: he remembered Vashti;
her beauty, and was grieved, as Jarchi observes, that she was removed from him; and so Josephus says ^F3, that he passionately loved her, and could not bear parting with her, and therefore was grieved that he had brought himself into such difficulties: the Targumists carry it further, and say that he was wroth with those that advised him to it, and ordered them to be put to death, and that they were: and what she had done;
that it was a trivial thing, and not deserving of such a sentence as he had passed upon her; that it was not done from contempt of him, but from modesty, and a strict regard to the laws of the Persians: and what was decreed against her;
that she should come no more before him, but be divorced from him; the thought of which gave him great pain and uneasiness.

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 Herodot. Calliope, sive, l. 9. c. 107.
F3 Antiqu. l. 11. c. 6. sect. 2.

Ester 2:1 In-Context

1 Ester se convierte en reina
Una vez que se le pasó el enojo, Jerjes comenzó a pensar en Vasti y en lo que ella había hecho, y también en el decreto que él había firmado.

2 Así que sus asistentes personales sugirieron lo siguiente: «Busquemos en todo el imperio jóvenes hermosas y vírgenes para el rey.

3 Que el rey nombre delegados en cada provincia para que reúnan a esas hermosas jóvenes en el harén real en la fortaleza de Susa. Hegai, el eunuco del rey a cargo del harén, se ocupará de que todas ellas reciban tratamientos de belleza.

4 Después, la joven que más agrade al rey será reina en lugar de Vasti». Al rey le pareció muy bueno ese consejo, así que decidió ponerlo en práctica.

5 Por esos días, en la fortaleza de Susa había un judío llamado Mardoqueo, hijo de Jair. Pertenecía a la tribu de Benjamín y era descendiente de Cis y Simei.