Esther 2:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁹ When the virgins were being gathered together, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ And when the maidens were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

Common English Bible

¹⁹ When they gathered the young women to the second women’s house, Mordecai was working for the king at the King’s Gate.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁹ Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

Esther 2:19 Cross References

Esther 2:21

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the threshold, became angry and conspired to kill King Ahasuerus.

Esther 5:13

Yet all this does me no good so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

Esther 5:9

Haman went out that day happy and in good spirits, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was infuriated with Mordecai;

Daniel 2:49

Daniel made a request of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel remained at the king’s court.