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John Gill's Exposition on Esther 2:10

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred, etc.] What nation or family she was of; it not being asked, she was under no obligation to declare it; and being born in Shushan, as very probable, she was taken to be a Persian: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it; lest she should be despised and ill treated on that account; fearing, if the king knew it, he would not marry her, as Aben Ezra; or rather, as the same writer thinks, that she might keep the law of God privately, observe the sabbath, etc.
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