{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/wesley/est002.htm","path":"bib/cmt/wesley/est002.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/wesley/est002.htm","text":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley, [1754-65]\n \nEsther 2:3\n \nest 2:3\nKeeper - Of all the women, both virgins and concubines: only the virgins he himself took care of, as requiring more care and caution, and the concubines be committed to Shaashgaz, Est 2:14, his deputy. Purification - That is, to cleanse them from all impurities, to perfume, and adorn, and every way prepare them for the king: for the legal purification of the Jews he never regarded. \nEsther 2:7\n \nest 2:7\nEsther - Hadassah was her Hebrew name before her marriage; and she was called Esther by the king after it. \nEsther 2:9\n \nest 2:9\nPleased - Because she was very beautiful, therefore he supposed she would be acceptable to the king; and by the Divine power, which moveth the hearts of men which way he pleaseth. \nEsther 2:10\n \nest 2:10\nShew it - Lest the knowledge hereof should either make her contemptible, or bring some inconvenience to the whole nation; but there was also an hand of God in causing this to be concealed, for the better accomplishment of that which he designed, though Mordecai was ignorant of it. \nEsther 2:13\n \nest 2:13\nDesired - For ornament, or by way of attendance. And it should be observed, that every one whom the king took to his bed, was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was Abraham's, so that it would have been no sin or dishonour to Esther, though she had not been made queen. \nEsther 2:19\n \nest 2:19\nSat - By office, as one of the king's guards or ministers; being advanced to this place by Esther's favour.","title":"Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible: Esther: Esther Chapter 2","type":"page"}