Esther did not reveal her people or her lineage, because Mordecai had instructed her not to do so.
Cross References
Esther 2:11And every day Mordecai would walk back and forth in front of the court of the harem to learn about Esther's welfare and what was happening to her.
Esther 2:20Esther still had not revealed her lineage or her people, just as Mordecai had instructed. She obeyed Mordecai's command, as she had done under his care.
Treasury of Scripture
Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it.
had not shewed.
Esther 3:8
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
Esther 4:13,14
Then Mordecai commanded to answer Esther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt escape in the king's house, more than all the Jews…
Esther 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
for Mordecai.
Esther 2:7,20
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter…
Ephesians 6:1
Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
