Esther 2:8-14

Bible Text

[8] So it happened, 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 taken into the king's house, to the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women. [9] The maiden pleased him, and she obtained kindness of him; and he speedily gave her things for her purification, with her portions, and the seven maidens who were meet to be given her out of the king's house: and he removed her and her maidens to the best place of the house of the women. [10] Esther had not made known her people nor her relatives; for Mordecai had charged her that she should not make it known. [11] Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her. [12] Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after it had been done to her as prescribed for the women twelve months (for so were the days of their purification accomplished, [to wit], six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odors and with the things for the purifying of the women), [13] then in this wise came the 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. [14] 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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Esther 2:8-14 mentions Babylon, Jerusalem and Susa.

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