Esther 2:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 2:1-20

How God put down one that was high and mighty from her seat we read in the chapter before, and are now to be told how he exalted one of low degree, as the virgin Mary observes in her song (Luke 1:52) and Hannah before her, 1 Sam. 2:4-8. Vashti being humbled for her height, Esther is advanced for her humility. Observe, I. The extravagant course that was taken to please the king with another wife instead of Vashti. Josephus says that when his anger was over he was exceedingly grieved that the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 2:1

After these things, when the wrath of King Ahasuerus was appeased ,.... Which went off with his wine, and so was quickly after, a few days at most, unless this can be understood as after the expedition of Xerxes into Greece, from whence he returned to Shushan, in the seventh year of his reign; and if he is the Ahasuerus here meant, he married Esther that year, Esther 2:16 and it seems certain, that after his expedition he gave himself up to his amours, and in his way to Sardis he fell in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1

After these things . Probably not very long after. Between the great assembly held in Susa in Xerxes' third year, b.c. 483, and his departure for Greece, b.c. 481, was a period of about two years, or a little more. The application of the officers must have been made to him, and the directions to seek for virgins given, during this space. Ahasuerus … remembered Vashti . With favour probably, or at any rate with regret and relenting. His anger was appeased, and balancing what she had... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1

Memory's visitation. The interval here indicated cannot be measured exactly. It is not important, or probably it would have been stated. But some things respecting it are worthy of note: that time is measurable by what we do in it, and by how the individual character grows in it. It is measurable in sadder ways—by all the heap and accumulation of the undone lying at our feet. And once more, among many other ways, we are reminded here how it is measurable by the duration or the cooling down... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-4

Evil counsel overruled. When a king takes counsel of flatterers and favourites, it bodes no good either to himself or to his people. Such parasites think only how they may make their masters' vices the stepping-stones to their own preferment and power. And a king encompassed with adulation, and encouraged to gratify his own passions, is not likely to rule over his subjects with justice or with wisdom. The ministers of Ahasuerus, in advising him to have his provinces ransacked for beautiful... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-4

Vain regrets. We observe here— I. AN ABIDING MEMORY . The past cannot be wholly shut out from the present. The power of memory cleaves to the soul. The king "remembered Vashti." Time, which had appeased his wrath, had not destroyed the queen's image, or cast into oblivion the facts connected with her disgrace. The persons and things of the past continue to live in memory either to sweeten or embitter the life. We should lay up nothing in this storehouse but what will bear... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-18

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 2:1

These events must belong to the time between the great assembly held at Susa in Xerxes’ third year (483 B.C.), and the departure of the monarch on his expedition against Greece in his fifth year, 481 B.C. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 2:1

Esther 2:1. He remembered Vashti With grief and shame, that in his wine and rage he had so severely punished, and so irrevocably rejected, so beautiful and desirable a person, and that for so small a provocation, to which she was easily led by the modesty of her sex and by the laws and customs of Persia. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 2:1-23

1:1-2:23 ESTHER BECOMES QUEENOfficials and leading citizens from all over the Persian Empire had gathered in the winter capital for an exhibition designed to display the riches and magnificence of the royal court. The exhibition lasted six months and was brought to a fitting climax by a lavish seven-day banquet (1:1-9). The week of wine and merriment so excited the king that his sexual urges were in danger of getting out of control. Consequently, when he told his queen Vashti to display her... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 2:1-20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Esther 2:1-18

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Esther 2:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Esther 2:1

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Esther 2:1-23

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