Yǐsītièjì 5:1

1 Dì sān rì , Yǐsītiĕ chuān shang zhāo fù , jìn wánggōng de neì yuàn , duì diàn zhàn lì . wáng zaì diàn lǐ zuò zaì bǎozuò shang , duì zhe diàn mén .

Yǐsītièjì 5:1 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 5:1

Now it came to pass on the third day
Of the fast; though the former Targum paraphrases it the third day of the passover, the sixteenth of Nisan, (See Gill on Esther 4:17), though it is probable this was nearer the time fixed for the destruction of the Jews, see ( Esther 8:9 ) , yet the Jews have fixed the fast of Esther on that very day, the thirteenth of Adar ^F6:

that Esther put on her royal apparel;
in order to go in to the king, and appear before him; which to do in a mournful habit, such as she had on when fasting, was not proper; for then she put off her royal crown, as is intimated in the additions to the book of Esther,

And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel. (Esther 15:1)

and as was usual for princes to do in times of mourning ^F7; but now she put it on, as both Ben Gorion ^F8 and the latter Targum affirm:

and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the
king's house;
into which none might go but such as were called; yet Esther being queen, the keepers of the door could not forbid her, as Aben Ezra observes:

and the king sat upon his royal throne, in the royal house, over
against the gate of the house;
so that he could see whoever came in at it, into the inner court.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Vid Reland. Antiqu. Heb. par. 4. c. 13. sect. 5.
F7 Vid. Paschalium de Coronis, l. 10. c. 11. p. 699.
F8 Hist. Heb. Jud. l. 2. c. 4.

Yǐsītièjì 5:1 In-Context

1 Dì sān rì , Yǐsītiĕ chuān shang zhāo fù , jìn wánggōng de neì yuàn , duì diàn zhàn lì . wáng zaì diàn lǐ zuò zaì bǎozuò shang , duì zhe diàn mén .

2 Wáng jiàn wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ zhàn zaì yuàn neì , jiù shī ēn yú tā , xiàng tā shēn chū shǒu zhōng de jīn zhàng , Yǐsītiĕ biàn xiàng qián mó zhàng tóu .

3 Wáng duì tā shuō , wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ a , nǐ yào shénme . nǐ qiú shénme , jiù shì guó de yī bàn yĕ bì cìgĕi nǐ .

4 Yǐsītiĕ shuō , wáng ruò yǐwéi mĕi , jiù qǐng wáng daì zhe Hǎmàn , jīnrì fù wǒ suǒ yùbeì de yánxí .

5 Wáng shuō , jiào Hǎmàn sù sù zhào Yǐsītiĕ de huà qù xíng . yúshì wáng daì zhe Hǎmàn fù Yǐsītiĕ suǒ yùbeì de yánxí .