4Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.


In Context

1 Later when the anger of King Xerxes had subsided, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her.

2 Then the king's personal attendants proposed, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

3 Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful girls into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.

4 Then let the girl who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." This advice appealed to the king, and he followed it.

5 Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,

6 who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.

Esther 2:4 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And whosoever among them all shall please the king's eyes, let her be queen instead of Vasthi. The word pleased the king: and he commanded it should be done as they had suggested.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:4and let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And let the maiden that pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:4and let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king, and he did so.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4And let the maiden who pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.| The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:4and the young woman who is good in the eyes of the king doth reign instead of Vashti;' and the thing is good in the eyes of the king, and he doth so.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:4And let the maiden which pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.