Esther 2:16 BSB — MannaFest

Esther 2:16

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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ASV

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

KJV

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Tebeth (compare the corresponding Egyptian month, “Tobi” or “Tubi”), corresponded nearly to our January. In the seventh year of his reign - In December, 479 B.C., or January, 478 B.C. Xerxes quitted Sardis for Susa in, or soon after, September, 479 B.C. It has been regarded as a “difficulty” that Vashti’s place, declared vacant in 483 B.C., was not supplied until the end of 479 B.C., four years afterward. But since two years out of the four had been occupied by the Grecian expedition, the objection cannot be considered very weighty.

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Original language & word study

16 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַתִּלָּקַ֨ח	va.ti.la.Kach	and she was taken	H3947 →
אֶסְתֵּ֜ר	'es.Ter	Esther	H635 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ	ha.Me.lekh	the king	H4428 →
אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ֙	'a.chash.ve.ro.Vosh	Ahasuerus	H325 →
אֶל־	'el-	into	H413 →
בֵּ֣ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
מַלְכוּת֔וֹ	mal.khu.To	royalty his	H4438 →
בַּחֹ֥דֶשׁ	ba.Cho.desh	in the month	H2320 →
הָעֲשִׂירִ֖י	ha.'a.si.Ri	<the> tenth	H6224 →
הוּא־	hu'-	that	H1931 →
חֹ֣דֶשׁ	Cho.desh	[is] [the] month of	H2320 →
טֵבֵ֑ת	te.Vet	Tebeth	H2887 →
בִּשְׁנַת־	bish.nat-	in year	H8141 →
שֶׁ֖בַע	She.va'	seven	H7651 →
לְמַלְכוּתֽוֹ׃	le.mal.khu.To	of reign his	H4438 →

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Through
Esther 8:9
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors,…
leads to
- Esther 1:22
  He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his…
- Esther 1:1
  This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.
- Esther 3:12–13
  On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of…
Through
Esther 2:1
Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.
leads to
- Daniel 6:14–18
  As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.
- Esther 7:10
  So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.
- Esther 1:12–21
  Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.
Through
Esther 2:3
and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care…
leads to
- Esther 2:8–9
  When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the…
- Esther 2:12–15
  In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes…

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06About Esther

Where the connections lead

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The walk

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About Esther