SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:16
Fue, pues , Ester llevada al rey Asuero a su casa real en el mes décimo, que es el mes de Tebet, en el año séptimo de su reinado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Esther 2:16
Verse 16. The tenth month-Tebeth] Answering to part of our December and January.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. So Esther was taken unto King Ahasuerus, into his house royal , etc.] Did not return on the morrow to the house of the women, as those who only became the king’s concubines did, ( Esther 2:14), but she was taken to be his wife, and designed for his queen, and so was retained in his palace, and placed in an apartment suitable to the dignity she was about to be advanced unto: and this was done in the tenth month, which is the month Tebeth ; and answers to part of December and part of January; not the twelfth month Adar, as the Septuagint version, and so Josephus f90 , contrary to the original text: either that law had not obtained among the Persians, or the king thought himself not bound by it, which forbid marriage at any other time than the beginning of the vernal equinox f91 : in the seventh year of his reign ; and the divorce of Vashti being in the third year of his reign, it was four years before Esther was taken by him; who, if Xerxes, it may be accounted for by his preparation for, and engagement in, a war with Greece, which took him up all this time; and from whence he returned in the seventh year of his reign, at the beginning of it, and married Esther at the close of it, (see Esther 2:1) as may be suggested.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-20 - We see to what absurd practices those came, who were destitute of Divine revelation, and what need there was of the gospel of Christ, to purify men from the lusts of the flesh, and to bring them back to the original institution of marriage. Esther was preferred as queen. Thos who suggest that Esther committed sin to come at this dignity, do no consider the custom of those times and countries. Every one that the king took was married to him, and was his wife, though of a lower rank But how low is human nature sunk, when such as these are the leadin pursuits and highest worldly happiness of men! Disappointment an vexation must follow; and he most wisely consults his enjoyment, eve in this present life, who most exactly obeys the precepts of the Divin law. But let us turn to consider the wise and merciful providence of God, carrying on his deep but holy designs in the midst of all this And let no change in our condition be a pretext for forgetting ou duties to parents, or the friends who have stood in their place.
Original Hebrew
ותלקח 3947 אסתר 635 אל 413 המלך 4428 אחשׁורושׁ 325 אל 413 בית 1004 מלכותו 4438 בחדשׁ 2320 העשׂירי 6224 הוא 1931 חדשׁ 2320 טבת 2887 בשׁנת 8141 שׁבע 7651 למלכותו׃ 4438
