«Let a search be made for
beautiful young virgins for the king,» they say.
Then the king's servants who attended him said: «Let
beautiful young virgins be sought for the king; 3and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather all the
beautiful young virgins to Shushan the citadel, into the women's quarters, under the custody of Hegai the king's eunuch, custodian of the women.
Not exact matches
The fact that Esther was a
beautiful virgin, and not yet married, suggests that she was quite
young when she was brought into King Xerxes» harem.
«I feel really quite uncomfortable,» he says, «with the fact that these quite often
beautiful young people sully their
virgin skin with my horrible drawings.»