Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai’s command,
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province
he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservant
And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or