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Esther 2:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Esther 2:1-3
Lexham English Bible
Esther is Chosen Queen
2 After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her. 2 And the king’s servants attending him said, “Let them seek attractive young virgins for the king. 3 Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the harem[a] in the citadel of Susa under the care of[b] Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give them their beauty treatment.
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- Esther 2:3 Literally “house of the women”
- Esther 2:3 Literally “to the hand of”
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