Esther 1:9

Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

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KJV

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

ASV

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

YLT

Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

DBT

Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

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"Vashti the queen also held a feast for the women in the palace where King Ahasuerus liked to stay." Queen Vashti must symbolize the Jewish people, which at the time seemed to have ruled like a queen since it was found to stand apart from …

Rabanus Maurus· Commentary on Esther, 856patristic

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Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women.... For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern nations, to admit of women to their festivals (m), but they feasted by themselves. Who Vashti was is not known with any certainty. Bishop Usher, who takes Ahasuerus to be Darius Hystaspis, thinks Vashti was Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, whom he married. The Targumist says, she was the daughter of Evilmerodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar.

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

Vashti - If Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti would be Amestris, whom the Greeks regarded as the only legitimate wife of that monarch, and who was certainly married to him before he ascended the throne. The name may be explained either as a corruption of Amestris, or as a title, vahishta, (Sanskrit: vasishtha, the superlative of vasu, sweet); and it may be supposed that the disgrace recorded (Est 1:19-21, see the note) was only temporary; Amestris in the later part of Xerxes reign recovering her former dignity.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women--The celebration was double; for, as according to the Oriental fashion, the sexes do not intermingle in society, the court ladies were entertained in a separate apartment by the queen.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

An unhappy falling out there was, at the end of the feast, between the king and queen, which broke of the feast abruptly, and sent the guests away silent and ashamed. It was certainly the king's weakness to send for Vashti into his presence when he was drunk, and in company with abundance of gentlemen, many of whom, it is likely, were in the same condition.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Esther 5:8
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
Esther 5:4
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”

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Queen Vashti Refuses to Obey Ahasuerus' Command — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866) — public domain

Esther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
Date: Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC

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Esther 5:8
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the…
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- Proverbs 16:9
  A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Esther 7:3
  Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my…
- Esther 8:5
  “If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order…
- Esther 6:1–14
  That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
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Esther 5:4
“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
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- Proverbs 29:11
  A fool vents all his anger, but a wise man holds it back.
- Esther 5:8
  If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the…
- Psalms 112:5
  It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
- Esther 3:15
  The couriers left, spurred on by the king’s command, and the edict was issued in the citadel of Susa. Then the king and Haman sat down to drink, but the city of Susa was…

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