Esther 2:9-11

The Voice

⁹ Esther soon impressed Hegai and was favored. He arranged that she be given the most lustrous beauty treatments and fed the finest fruits and vegetables from the king’s garden. He assigned to her seven servants and moved her and her servants to the harem’s finest rooms. ¹⁰ Mordecai had instructed Esther to keep her Jewish heritage a secret, and so she told no one. Still her cousin worried about her. ¹¹ Every day Mordecai paced back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to see if he could find out some news, any news, about Esther.