John Gill, on Esth 2:10

“And she would not tell him her people nor her country. For Mardochai had charged her to say nothing at all of that:”

“Esther had not showed her people nor her kindred,.... What nation or family she was of; it not being asked, she was under no obligation to declare it; and being born in Shushan, as very probable, she was taken to be a Persian: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not show it; lest she should be despised and ill treated on that account; fearing, if the king knew it, he would not marry her, as Aben Ezra; or rather, as the same writer thinks, that she might keep the law of God privately, observe the sabbath, &c.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.