Esther 2:2
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Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
Read Esther 2:2 Using Other Translations
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king:
Then the king's young men who attended him said, "Let beautiful young virgins be sought out for the king.
So his personal attendants suggested, “Let us search the empire to find beautiful young virgins for the king.
What does Esther 2:2 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Esther 2:2
Then said the king's servants that ministered unto
him
Fearing that, if Vashti should be restored, vengeance would be
taken on them; or however to remove the grief and melancholy of
the king, they gave the following advice: let there be fair
young virgins sought for the king;
that he might enjoy them, and choose one of them, the most
agreeable to him, and put her in the room of Vashti.
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