Esther 2:10

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Esther did not reveal her ethnicity or her family background, because Mordecai had ordered her not to make them known.

Cross References

Matthew 10:16

‘Look, I’m sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

Esther 2:20

Esther still did not reveal her family background or her ethnicity, as Mordecai had directed. She obeyed Mordecai’s orders, as she always had while he brought her up.

Ephesians 6:1

Children, obey  your parents in the Lord, because this is right.

Esther 3:8

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, ‘There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,  keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.  It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold  to destruction, death, and annihilation.  If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,  I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.’

Esther 2:7

Mordecai was the legal guardian of his cousin  Hadassah (that is, Esther), because she had no father or mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was extremely good-looking. When her father and mother died, Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter.

Esther 2:11

Every day Mordecai took a walk in front of the harem’s courtyard to learn how Esther was doing and to see what was happening to her.

Ruth 3:6

She went down to the threshing-floor and did everything her mother-in-law had charged her to do.