* favour.  or, kindness.  in his sight.  Heb. before him.  so
   that he set.
  4:14  1Sa 2:8  Ps 75:6,7  113:7,8  Eze 17:24  Lu 1:48-52 
   Bishop Patrick observes, that those who suggest that Esther
   committed a great sin to come at the dignity of queen of
   Persia, do not consider the custom of those times and
   countries.  Every one that the king took to his bed was
   married to him, and was his wife of a lower rank, as Hagar was
   to Abraham.