Esther 2:16 meaning and explanation
She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal palace in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther 2:16, Berean Standard Bible
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Esther 2:16 marks the moment the young Jewish exile is brought from the harem to King Xerxes himself, in the tenth month (Tebeth) of the seventh year of his reign. The narrator, telling the story of how a captive people's fate came to rest on one woman, gives an exact date, the kind of detail that anchors the account in real court history.
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