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Esther 2 :: Darby Translation (DBY)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:1 - After these things, when the fury of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:2 - Then said the king's servants that attended upon him, Let there be maidens, virgins of beautiful countenance, sought for the king;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:3 - and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the young virgins of beautiful countenance to Shushan the fortress, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:4 - And let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:5 - There was in Shushan the fortress a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:6 - who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:7 - And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter; for she had neither father nor mother -- and the maiden was fair and beautiful -- and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

Esther Finds Favor

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:8 - And it came to pass when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the fortress, unto the custody of Hegai, that Esther also was brought into the king's house, unto the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:9 - And the maiden pleased him, and obtained favour before him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, and her portions, and the seven maidens selected to be given her, out of the king's house; and he removed her and her maids to the best place of the house of the women.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:10 - Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:11 - And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:12 - And when every maiden's turn came to go in to king Ahasuerus after that she had been treated for twelve months, according to the manner of the women (for so were the days of their purification accomplished -- six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with spices, and with things for the purifying of the women,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:13 - and thus came the maiden in unto the king), whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:14 - In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, unto the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, keeper of the concubines. She came in to the king no more, unless the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:15 - And when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained grace in the sight of all them that saw her.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:16 - So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus, into his royal house, in the tenth month, that is, the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Esther Becomes Queen

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:17 - And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins, and he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:18 - And the king made a great feast to all his princes and his servants, Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave presents according to the king's bounty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:19 - And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:20 - (Esther, as Mordecai had charged her, had not yet made known her birth nor her people; for Esther did what Mordecai told her, like as when she was brought up with him.)

Mordecai Saves the King

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:21 - In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:22 - And the thing became known to Mordecai, and he related it to Esther the queen, and Esther told it to the king in Mordecai's name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 2:23 - And the matter was investigated and found out; and they were both hanged on a tree. And it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
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In 1867, John Nelson Darby translated the New Testament from Greek into English. Further revisions were done in 1872 and 1884. Darby’s work was first published as The Holy Scriptures: A New Translation from the Original Languages by J. N. Darby. After Darby’s death in 1882, some of his students worked together to produce the complete Darby Bible based on the Masoretic Hebrew text, Darby’s German (Elberfelder), and the French (Pau) translations. In 1890, the first complete Darby Bible was published in English. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Esther Chapter 2 — Additional Translations:

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