Esther 2:14

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In the evening she went, and on the next day she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, who kept the concubines: she came in to the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and she were called by name.

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The Babylonian and Persian EmpiresThe Babylonian and Persian empires that carried Judah into exile and later allowed the return.

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Susa was the Persian royal capital, where Esther was taken into King Xerxes’ harem after the Persian Empire had absorbed Babylon. Babylon was the earlier imperial center from which many Jews, including families connected with Jerusalem, had been exiled; Jerusalem remained their ancestral covenant city and temple center.

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Esther 2:14 mentions Babylon, Jerusalem and Susa.

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