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Chapter 2 After these things, when the
wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased,

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he remembered Vashti and what she had done
and what was decreed against her.

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Then said the king's servants that
ministered unto him, Let there be fair

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young virgins sought for the king,
and let the king appoint officers in all

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the provinces of his kingdom, that they
may gather together all the fair young

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virgins unto Shushen, the palace,
to the house of the women, unto the

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custody of Hege, the king's chamberlain,
keeper of the women, and let there things

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for purification be given them,
and let the maiden which pleaseth the king

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be queen instead of Vashti.

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And the thing pleased the king,
and he did so.

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Now in Shushen the palace there was a
certain Jew whose name was Mordecai,

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the son of Jea, the son of Shimei,
the son of Kish, a Benjamite, who had been

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carried away from Jerusalem with the
captivity which had been carried away with

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Jeconiah, king of Judah, whom
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon,

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had carried away.

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And he brought up Hadassah, that is,
Esther, his uncle's daughter, for she had

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neither father nor mother.

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And the maid was fair and beautiful,
whom Mordecai, when her father and mother

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were dead, took for his own daughter.

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So it came to pass, when the king's
commandment and his decree was heard,

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and when many maidens were gathered
together unto Shushan the palace,

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to the custody of Haggai, that Esther was
brought also unto the king's house,

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to the custody of Haggai, keeper of the
women.

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And the maiden pleased him, and she
obtained kindness of him, and he speedily

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gave her her things for purification,
with such things as belonged to her,

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and seven maidens, which were meet to be
given her out of the king's house.

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And he preferred her and her maids unto
the best place of the house of the women.

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Esther had not showed her people nor her
kindred, for Mordecai had charged her that

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she should not show it.

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And Mordecai walked every day before the
court of the women's house, to know how

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Esther did, and what should become of her.

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Now when every maid's turn was come to go
into king Ahasuerus, after that she had

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been twelve months, according to the
manner of the women, for so were the days

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of their purifications accomplished,
to wit, six months with oil of myrrh,

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and six months with sweet odours,
and with other things for the purifying of

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the women.

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Then thus came every maiden unto the king.

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Whatsoever she desired was given her to go
with her out of the house of the women,

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unto the king's house.

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In the evening she went, and on the morrow
she returned into the second house of the

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women, to the custody of Shayashgaz,
the king's chamberlain, which kept the

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concubines.

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She came in unto the king no more,
except the king delighted in her,

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and that she were called by name.

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Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter
of Abihel, the uncle of Mordecai,

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who had taken her for his daughter,
was come to go in unto the king,

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she required nothing but what Haggai the
king's chamberlain, the keeper of the

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women, appointed, and Esther obtained
favour in the sight of all them that

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looked upon her.

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So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus
into his house royal in the tenth month,

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which is the month Tebith, in the seventh
year of his reign.

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And the king loved Esther above all the
women, and she obtained grace and favour

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in his sight more than all the virgins,
so that he set the royal crown upon her

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head, and made her queen instead of
Vashti.

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Then the king made a great feast unto all
his princes and his servants, even

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Esther's feast, and he made a release to
the provinces, and gave gifts,

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according to the state of the king.

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And when the virgins were gathered
together the second time, then Mordecai

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sat in the king's gate.

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Esther had not yet showed her kindred nor
her people, as Mordecai had charged her.

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For Esther did the commandment of
Mordecai, like as when she was brought up

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with him.

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In those days, while Mordecai sat in the
king's gate, two of the king's

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chamberlains, Bigthan and Tirish,
of those which kept the door, were wroth

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and sought to lay hand on the king
Ahasuerus.

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And the thing was known to Mordecai,
who told it unto Esther the queen,

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and Esther certified the king thereof in
Mordecai's name.

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And when inquisition was made of the
matter, it was found out.

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Therefore they were both hanged on a tree,
and it was written in the book of the

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Chronicles before the king.