Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto the king's house.
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Gill's Exposition
Then thus came every virgin unto the king,.... When her twelve months were up, and she was purified in the manner before observed:
whatsoever she desired was given her to go with her out of the…
Adam Clarke
Whatsoever she desired - When any of the young women were called to go to the king, it appears that it was an ordinance that whatever kind of dress stuff, color, jewels, etc., they thought best to set…
How God put down one that was high and mighty from her seat we read in the chapter before, and are now to be told how he exalted one of low degree, as the virgin Mary observes in her song (Luk 1:52)…
Cambridge Bible
then in this wise better than then thusof A.V., as marking more forcibly the commencement of the apodosis, answering to the somewhat distant -Now when" at the beginning of Est 2:2.