Ester 2:16

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16 Llevaron a Ester ante el rey Jerjes, en el palacio real, a comienzos del invierno
del s茅ptimo a帽o de su reinado.

Ester 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 2:16

So Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus, into his house royal,
&c.] Did not return on the morrow to the house of the women, as those who only became the king's concubines did, ( Esther 2:14 ) , but she was taken to be his wife, and designed for his queen, and so was retained in his palace, and placed in an apartment suitable to the dignity she was about to be advanced unto:

and this was done in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth;
and answers to part of December and part of January; not the twelfth month Adar, as the Septuagint version, and so Josephus F17, contrary to the original text: either that law had not obtained among the Persians, or the king thought himself not bound by it, which forbid marriage at any other time than the beginning of the vernal equinox F18:

in the seventh year of his reign;
and the divorce of Vashti being in the third year of his reign, it was four years before Esther was taken by him; who, if Xerxes, it may be accounted for by his preparation for, and engagement in, a war with Greece, which took him up all this time; and from whence he returned in the seventh year of his reign, at the beginning of it, and married Esther at the close of it, see ( Esther 2:1 ) as may be suggested.


FOOTNOTES:

F17 Ut supra (Antiqu. l. 11. c.6. sect. 2.)
F18 Strabo. Geograph. l. 1. p. 504.
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Ester 2:16 In-Context

14 Esa noche la llevaban a las habitaciones privadas del rey, y a la ma帽ana siguiente, la pasaban a un segundo har茅n,
donde viv铆an las esposas del rey. All铆 quedaba al cuidado de Saasgaz, el eunuco del rey que se ocupaba de las concubinas. Jam谩s volv铆a a la presencia del rey a menos que a 茅l le hubiera agradado de manera especial y la mandara llamar por su nombre.
15 Ester era hija de Abihail, t铆o de Mardoqueo. (Mardoqueo hab铆a adoptado como hija a su prima menor, Ester). Cuando a Ester le lleg贸 el turno de ser llevada ante el rey, ella sigui贸 el consejo de Hegai, el eunuco encargado del har茅n. No pidi贸 nada aparte de lo que 茅l le sugiri贸, y todos los que la ve铆an, la admiraban.
16 Llevaron a Ester ante el rey Jerjes, en el palacio real, a comienzos del invierno
del s茅ptimo a帽o de su reinado.
17 Y el rey am贸 a Ester m谩s que a todas las dem谩s j贸venes. Estaba tan encantado con ella que le puso la corona real sobre la cabeza y la declar贸 reina en lugar de Vasti.
18 Para celebrar la ocasi贸n, ofreci贸 un gran banquete en honor de Ester a todos sus nobles y funcionarios, decret贸 d铆a de fiesta para las provincias y entreg贸 generosos regalos a todos.
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