Esther 2:11Open English Bible (US)
Every day Mordecai would to walk in front of the courtyard of the harem and ask after Esther’s health and what was happening to her.
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Esther 1:22
He sent letters to all the provinces, to every province in its own system of writing and to every people in their language, that every man should be master in his own house!
Esther 2:5
In Susa the royal residence lived a Jew named Mordecai. He was son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjamite.
Esther 2:7
Mordecai had adopted Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter, since she had neither father nor mother. The girl was shapely and beautiful; and after her father and mother died, Mordecai raised her as if she was his own daughter.
Esther 2:9
The girl pleased him and gained his favor, so that he quickly gave her the cosmetics she needed to enhance her beauty and her allowance of food and the seven maids selected from the king’s household. He also transferred her and her maids to the best place in the harem.
Esther 2:10
Esther had not revealed her people nor her family background because Mordecai had ordered her not to.