Esther 1:9 BSB — MannaFest

Esther 1:9

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

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

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.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּ֚ם	gam	also	H1571 →
וַשְׁתִּ֣י	vash.Ti	Vashti	H2060 →
הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה	ha.mal.Kah	the queen	H4436 →
עָשְׂתָ֖ה	'a.se.Tah	she made	H6213 →
מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה	mish.Teh	a feast of	H4960 →
נָשִׁ֑ים	na.Shim	women	H802 →
בֵּ֚ית	beit	[the] house of	H1004 →
הַמַּלְכ֔וּת	ha.mal.Khut	<the> royalty	H4438 →
אֲשֶׁ֖ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ	la.Me.lekh	[belonged] to the king	H4428 →
אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃ ס	'a.chash.ve.Ro.osh	Ahasuerus	H325 →

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Esther 5:8
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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.”
leads to
- 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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