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Then let the girl who pleases the king take Vashti's place." The king was pleased with the suggestion and he acted on it. (Esther 2, 4)
who had been exiled from Jerusalem among the captives taken away with King Jeconiah of Judah by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. (Esther 2, 6)
Mordecai was foster father to his cousin Hadassah, that is Esther, who had lost both father and mother. The girl had a lovely face and figure. On the death of her parents, Mordecai had adopted her as his daughter. (Esther 2, 7)
In compliance with the king's edict, a great number of young girls were brought to Susa and entrusted to Hegai. Esther was among them. (Esther 2, 8)
Esther pleased the custodian of women and won his favor. He not only promptly provided her with cosmetics and good food but assigned to her seven special maids from the king's household and transferred her and her maids into the best place in the harem. (Esther 2, 9)
Esther did not reveal her nationality or family, for Mordecai had forbidden her to do so. (Esther 2, 10)
Each day Mordecai would walk up and down the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was faring. (Esther 2, 11)
After a preparation of twelve months decreed for the women, each of them had to appear in turn before King Ahasuerus. This preparatory period was for beautifying treatment: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and cosmetics. (Esther 2, 12)
Then when the girl was to present herself to the king, she was allowed to take with her from the harem to the king's palace anything she wanted. (Esther 2, 13)
She would go there in the evening and return the following morning to another harem under the care of the royal eunuch Shaashgaz, custodian of the concubines. She would not go back to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name. (Esther 2, 14)
When the turn came for Esther - the daughter of Abihail whom Mordecai had adopted from his uncle - to go to the king, she asked for nothing beyond what the eunuch Hegai had given her; and yet she won the admiration of all who saw her. (Esther 2, 15)
Esther was brought to King Ahasuerus in his palace in the tenth month called Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. (Esther 2, 16)
