She Won Favor "in the Eyes of Everyone Seeing Her" - Continue

 Esther so impressed Hegai that he treated her with great loving-kindness, giving her seven servant girls and the best place in the house of the women. The account even says: "All the while Esther was continually gaining favor in the eyes of everyone seeing her." (Esther 2:9, 15) Would beauty alone have impressed everyone so profoundly? No, there was much more to Esther than that. 

For instance, we read: "Esther had not told about her people or about her relatives, for Mordecai himself had instructed the girl to be discreet about her Jewish heritage; he no doubt saw that among Persian royalty, there was much prejudice against his people. What a pleasure it was for him to learn now, even though Esther was out of his sight, she still showed the same wise and obedient spirit!

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