Esther 2:16

Translations

Modern

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Traditional

So Esther was taken unto king Ahasuerus into his house royal in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Literal

And Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into the house of royalty, in the tenth month—it is the month of Tebeth—in the seventh year of his reign.

Latin

Ducta est itaque ad cubiculum regis Assueri mense decimo, qui vocatur Tebeth, septimo anno regni ejus.

Original

Hebrew

English

She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

Notes

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Esther 8:9
At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
Ezra 7:8
Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the king.
Esther 2:1
Some time later, when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.
Esther 2:3
…and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.

People

Ahasuerus: Persian Emperor (probably Xerxes I); husband of Esther Esther: Jewish queen of Persia; saved her people from genocide Tebeth: The tenth month of the Jewish calendar

Glossary

Book of Esther Calendars (Ancient and Modern) Esther, Additions to Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven Tebeth

Topics

Chamberlain: An officer of a King Month: Tebeth (January) Months: Names of the Twelve: Tenth, Tebeth Tebeth: The Tenth Month (January) Wives: Good: Esther

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