Esther 2:12-15

¹²In the twelve months before her turn to go to King Xerxes, the harem regulation required each young woman to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months, and then with perfumes and cosmetics for another six months.

¹³When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.

¹⁴She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.

¹⁵Now Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.

— Esther 2:12-15

(BSB)

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Cross References for Esther 2:12-15

• Esther 2:3
• Song of Songs 6:9
• Esther 9:29
• Proverbs 7:17
• Acts 7:10
• 1 Thessalonians 4:4-5
• Isaiah 57:9
• Esther 4:11
• Song of Songs 3:6
• Song of Songs 8:10

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