Esther Chapter 2 verse 19 Holy Bible
And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
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And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.
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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
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And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
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And when the virgins were assembled the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
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When the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate.
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And in the virgins being gathered a second time, then Mordecai is sitting in the gate of the king;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - When the virgins were gathered together. Rather, "When virgins." There is no article. The fact seems to be mentioned simply as furnishing a date, and we must suppose both that there was a second gathering, and that the time when it happened was generally known to the Jews and Persians. Then Mordecai sat, etc. The three verses, 19, 20, 21, hang together, and form a single sentence: "When virgins were gathered together a second time, and Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate - now Esther had not showed her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther did the command of Mordecai like as when she was brought up with him - in those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, being of the number of them which kept the threshold, were wroth," etc.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) And when the virgins . . .--Here begins a fresh incident in the history, whose date we cannot fix precisely, save that it falls between the marriage of Esther and the twelfth year of Ahasuerus (Esther 3:7). The king "loved Esther above all the women," but how the word "love "is degraded in this connection is seen by the fact that after she had been his wife certainly less (possibly much less) than five years, there takes place a second gathering of virgins (there is no article in the Hebrew), like the one previously mentioned (Esther 2:2). We should treat Esther 2:20 as parenthetical, and join Esther 2:21 closely to Esther 2:19.Then Mordecai sat.--Translate, and Mordecai was sitting. . . .
