Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it. Treasury of Scripture had not shewed. Esther 3:8 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus... Esther 4:13,14 Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with yourself that you shall escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews... 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 slaves and bondwomen... Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. for Mordecai. Esther 2:7,20 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother... Ephesians 6:1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
Context Esther Finds Favor
8So it came to pass, when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together to Shushan the palace, to the custody of Hegai, that Esther was brought also to the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. 9And 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 to the best place of the house of the women. 10Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it. 11And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what should become of her. 12Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors, and with other things for the purifying of the women;) 13Then thus came every maiden to the king; whatever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women to the king's house. 14In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name. 15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esther obtained favor in the sight of all them that looked on her. 16So Esther was taken to king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Esther had not made known her people nor her kindred; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:
Darby Bible Translation
Esther had not made known her people nor her birth; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known.
King James Bible
Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.
Young's Literal Translation
Esther hath not declared her people, and her kindred, for Mordecai hath laid a charge on her that she doth not declare it;
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