Esther 2:4

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What does Esther 2:4 mean?

Esther 2:4 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Esther 2:4

• Matthew 14:6

  But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.

• Matthew 20:16

  So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

• Matthew 22:14

  For many are called, but few are chosen.

• Esther 3:9-10

  If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.

• 2 Samuel 17:4

  And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

• Esther 1:21

  And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

• 2 Samuel 13:4-6

  And he said unto him, Why art thou, being the king’s son, lean from day to day? wilt thou not tell me? And Amnon said unto him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister. And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand. So Amnon lay down, and made himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said unto the king, I pray thee, let Tamar my sister come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat at her hand.

• 2 Samuel 16:21-23

  And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong. So they spread Absalom a tent upon the top of the house; and Absalom went in unto his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel. And the counsel of Ahithophel, which he counselled in those days, was as if a man had enquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.

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Context

• Esther 2:3

  And let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hege the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them:

• Esther 2:4

  And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

• Esther 2:5

  Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

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