Esther 2:10
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
Esther 2:10 in other translations
| BSB | Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so. |
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| WEB | Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives, because Mordecai had instructed her that she should not make it known. |
| ASV | Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known. |
| YLT | Esther hath not declared her people, and her kindred, for Mordecai hath laid a charge on her that she doth not declare it; |
| DARBY | Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known. |
| BBE | Esther had not said what family or people she came from, for Mordecai had given her orders not to do so. |
| Webster | Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it. |
What does Esther 2:10 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Esther 2:1-20
We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them back to the original institution of marriage. Esther was preferred as queen. Those who suggest that Esther committed sin to come at this dignity, do not consider the custom of those times and countries. Every one that the…
Esther 2:10 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Esther 2:10
- Esther 2:20
Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
- Matthew 10:16
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
- Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
- Esther 4:13-14
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king’s house, more than all the Jews. For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
- Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.
- Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.
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Context
- Esther 2:9
And the maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her her things for purification, with such things as belonged to her, and seven maidens, which were meet to be given her, out of the king’s house: and he preferred her and her maids unto the best place of the house of the women.
- Esther 2:10
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
- Esther 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.
Esther 2:10 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Esther no declaró su pueblo ni su nacimiento; porque Mardochêo le había mandado que no lo declarase. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Esther n’avait pas fait connaître son peuple et sa naissance, car Mardochée lui avait commandé de ne pas les faire connaître. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Esther hatte ihr Volk und ihre Abstammung nicht kundgetan; denn Mordokai hatte ihr geboten, daß sie es nicht kundtun sollte. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Quæ noluit indicare ei populum et patriam suam: Mardochæus enim præceperat ei, ut de hac re omnino reticeret: |