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1:11 to bring <0935> Queen <04436> Vashti <02060> into the king’s <04428> presence <06440> wearing her royal <04438> high turban <03804>. He wanted to show <07200> the people <05971> and the officials <08269> her beauty <03308>, for <03588> she was <01931> very attractive <04758> <02896>. 1:12 But Queen <04436> Vashti <02060> refused <03985> to come <0935> at the king’s <04428> bidding <01697> conveyed through <03027> the eunuchs <05631>. Then the king <04428> became <07107> extremely <03966> angry <07107>, and his rage <02534> consumed <01197> him. 1:13 The king <04428> then inquired <0559> of the wise <02450> men who were discerners <03045> of the times <06256>– for <03588> it was the royal <04428> custom <01697> to confer with all <03605> those who were proficient <03045> in laws <01881> and legalities <01779>. 1:14 Those who were closest <07138> to <0413> him were Carshena <03771>, Shethar <08369>, Admatha <0133>, Tarshish <08659>, Meres <04825>, Marsena <04826>, and Memucan <04462>. These men were the seven <07651> officials <08269> of Persia <06539> and Media <04074> who saw <07200> the king <04428> on a regular basis <06440> and had the most prominent <07223> offices <03427> in the kingdom <04438>. 1:15 The king asked, “By law <01881>, what <04100> should be done <06213> to Queen <04436> Vashti <02060> in light of <05921> the fact that <0834> she has not <03808> obeyed <06213> the instructions <03982> of King <04428> Ahasuerus <0325> conveyed through <03027> the eunuchs <05631>?” 1:16 Memucan <04462> then replied <0559> to the king <04428> and the officials <08269>, “The wrong <05753> of Queen <04436> Vashti <02060> is not <03808> against <05921> the king <04428> alone <0905>, but against <05921> all <03605> the officials <08269> and all <03605> the people <05971> who <0834> are throughout all <03605> the provinces <04082> of King <04428> Ahasuerus <0325>. 1:17 For <03588> the matter <01697> concerning the queen <04436> will spread <03318> to all <03605> the women <0802>, leading them to treat <05869> their husbands <01167> with contempt <0959>, saying <0559>, ‘When King <04428> Ahasuerus <0325> gave orders <0559> to bring <0935> Queen <04436> Vashti <02060> into his presence <06440>, she would not <03808> come <0935>.’ 1:18 And this <02088> very day <03117> the noble ladies <08282> of Persia <06539> and Media <04074> who <0834> have heard <08085> the matter <01697> concerning the queen <04436> will respond <0559> in the same way to all <03605> the royal <04428> officials <08269>, and there will be more than enough <01767> contempt <0963> and anger <07110>! 1:19 If <0518> the king <04428> is so inclined <02895>, let a royal <04438> edict <01697> go forth <03318> from him <06440>, and let it be written <03789> in the laws <01881> of Persia <06539> and Media <04074> that cannot <03808> be repealed <05674>, that <0834> Vashti <02060> may not <03808> come <0935> into the presence <06440> of King <04428> Ahasuerus <0325>, and let the king <04438> convey <05414> her royalty <04428> to another <07468> who is more deserving <02896> than <04480> she. 1:20 And let the king’s <04428> decision <06599> which <0834> he will enact <06213> be disseminated <08085> throughout all <03605> his kingdom <04438>, vast <07227> though <03588> it <01931> is. Then all <03605> the women <0802> will give <05414> honor <03366> to their husbands <01167>, from the most prominent <01419> to <05704> the lowly <06996>.” 1:21 The matter <01697> seemed appropriate <05869> <03190> to the king <04428> and the officials <08269>. So the king <04428> acted <06213> on the advice <01697> of Memucan <04462>. 1:22 He sent <07971> letters <05612> throughout <0413> all <03605> the royal <04428> provinces <04082>, to <0413> each <04082> province <04082> according to its own script <03791> and to <0413> each <05971> people <05971> according to its own language <03956>, that every <03605> man <0376> should be <01961> ruling <08323> his family <01004> and should be speaking <01696> the language <03956> of his own people <05971>.

• Est 1:10-22 -- Queen Vashti is Removed from Her Royal Position

• Women

  [nave] WOMEN Creation of, Gen. 1:27; 2:21, 22. Named, Gen. 2:23. Fall of, and curse upon, Gen. 3:1-16; 2 Cor. 11:3; 1 Tim. 2:14. Promise to, Gen. 3:15. Had separate apartments in dwellings, Gen. 24:67; 31:33; Esth. 2:9, 11. Ve...
  

• Wife

  [nave] WIFE Called Desire of the Eyes, Ezek. 24:16. Help, Gen. 2:18, 20. Fruitful Vine, Psa. 128:3. The judgment denounced against Eve, Gen. 3:16. Relation of, to husband, Gen. 2:18, 23, 24; 1 Cor. 11:3-12. Domestic duties of,...
  

• Vashti

  [ebd] beautiful, the queen of Ahasuerus, who was deposed from her royal dignity because she refused to obey the king when he desired her to appear in the banqueting hall of Shushan the palace (Esther 1:10-12). (See ESTHER.)
  [isbe] VASHTI - vash'-ti (washti; Astin; Old Persian "beautiful woman"): The former queen of Xerxes, whom he divorced. On the 7th day of a great feast which the king was giving to the assembled nobles of the empire and others, he c...
  [nave] VASHTI, wife of king Ahasuerus. Put away for refusing to exhibit herself at a royal banquet, Esth. 1:9-22; 2:1, 4, 17.
  

• Shushan

  [ebd] a lily, the Susa of Greek and Roman writers, once the capital of Elam. It lay in the uplands of Susiana, on the east of the Tigris, about 150 miles to the north of the head of the Persian Gulf. It is the modern Shush, on the...
  

• Servant

  [nave] SERVANT Distinguished as bond servant, who was a slave, and hired servant. Bond Laws of Moses concerning, Ex. 21:1-11, 20, 21, 26, 27, 32; Lev. 19:20-22; 25:6, 10, 35-55; Deut. 15:12, 14, 18; 24:7. Kidnapping forbidden, D...
  

• Queen

  [nave] QUEEN The wife of a king, 1 Kin. 11:19. Crowned, Esth. 1:11; 2:17. Divorced, Esth. 1:10-22. Sits on the throne with the king, Neh. 2:6. Makes feasts for the women of the royal household, Esth. 1:9. Exerts an evil influe...
  

• Persia

  [isbe] PERSIA - pur'-sha, (parats; Persia; in Assyrian Parsu, Parsua; in Achemenian Persian Parsa, modern Fars): In the Bible (2 Ch 36:20,22,23; Ezr 1:1,8; Est 1:3,14,18; 10:2; Ezek 27:10; 38:5; Dan 8:20; 10:1; 11:2) this name deno...
  [nave] PERSIA An empire which extended from India to Ethiopia, comprising one hundred and twenty-seven provinces, Esth. 1:1; Dan. 6:1. Government of, restricted by constitutional limitations, Esth. 8:8; Dan. 6:8-12. Municipal gov...
  

• PURIM; PUR

  [isbe] PURIM; PUR - pur'-rim, pur (purim, "lots"; Septuagint Phrourai): The name of a Jewish festival celebrated on the 14th and 15th days of the month Adar, the final month of the Biblical year, corresponding to February-March. 1....
  

• PRINCE

  [isbe] PRINCE - prins: This word occurs quite frequently in our English Bible, mostly in the Old Testament. While it is never used to denote royal parentage (compare 1 Ch 29:24), it often indicates actual royal or ruling power, tog...
  

• PERSIANS

  [isbe] PERSIANS - pur'-shanz, -zhanz (parac, also = PERSIA, PERSIS (which see); adjective parci Hebrew, and parcay, Aramaic.; Persai, adjective only in Neh 12:22; Dan 6:28; Achaem. Persian Parsa, name of both country and people; do...
  

• PERFORM

  [isbe] PERFORM - per-form' (Fr. parfournir, "to furnish completely," "to complete" "finish entirely"): In modern English, through a mistaken connection with "form," "perform" usually suggests an act in its continuity, while the wor...
  

• Medes

  [isbe] MEDES - medz (madhi; Assyrian Amada, Mada; Achaem. Persian Mada; Medoi (Gen 10:2; 2 Ki 17:6; 18:11; 1 Ch 1:5; Ezr 6:2; Est 1:3,14,18,19; 10:2; Isa 13:17; 21:2; Jer 25:25; 51:11,28; Dan 5:28; 6:1,9,13,16; 8:20; 9:1; 11:1)): M...
  [nave] MEDES Inhabitants of Media. Israelites distributed among, when carried to Assyria, 2 Kin. 17:6; 18:11. Palace in the Babylonian province of, Ezra 6:2. An essential part of the Medo-Persian empire, Esth. 1:1-19. Supremacy ...
  

• Husband

  [nave] HUSBAND. Gen. 2:23, 24 Matt. 19:5; Mark 10:7. Num. 5:11-31; Deut. 22:13-21; Deut. 24:5; Prov. 5:15-19; Eccl. 9:9; Mal. 2:14-16; 1 Cor. 7:3, 5; 1 Cor. 7:14, 16, 33; 1 Cor. 11:3; Eph. 5:22-33; Col. 3:18, 19; 1 Tim. 5:8; 1 Pet...
  

• GOOD

  [isbe] GOOD - good (Tobh, Tubh, yaTabh; agathos, agathon, kalos, kalon): In English "good" is used in various senses, most of which are represented in the Bible. (1) In the Old Testament the commonest word is Tobh, occurring very f...
  

• Family

  [nave] FAMILY. Of Saints Blessed, Psa. 128:3, 6. Should be taught God's word, Deut. 4:9, 10. Worship God together, 1 Cor. 16:19. Be duly regulated, Prov. 31:27; 1 Tim. 3:4, 5, 12. Live in unity, Gen. 45:24; Psa. 133:1. Live ...
  

• ECCLESIASTES, THE PREACHER

  [isbe] ECCLESIASTES, THE PREACHER - e-kle-zi-as'-tez, or (qoheleth; Ekklesiastes, perhaps "member of assembly"; see below): 1. Structure of the Book 2. The Contents 3. Composite Authorship? 4. Qoheleth 5. "King in Jerusalem" 6. Dat...
  

• Divorce

  [nave] DIVORCE. Ex. 21:7-11; Deut. 21:10-14; Deut. 24:1-4; Ezra 10:1-16; Neh. 13:23-30; Jer. 3:1; Mic. 2:9; Mal. 2:14-16; Matt. 5:31, 32; Matt. 19:3-12 Mark 10:2. Luke 16:18; 1 Cor. 7:10-17 Disobedience of the wife to the husband,...
  

• DEED

  [isbe] DEED - ded: Used in its ordinary modern sense in EV. In the Old Testament it is used to translates five Hebrew words: gemylah, literally, "recompense" (Isa 59:18); dabhar, literally, "word," "thing" (2 Ch 35:27 the King Jame...
  

• COMMANDMENT, THE NEW

  [isbe] COMMANDMENT, THE NEW - nu (entole kaine): The word "commandment" is used in the English versions of the Old Testament to translate several Hebrew words, more especially those meaning "word" (dabhar) as the ten words of God (...
  

• ACROSTIC

  [isbe] ACROSTIC - a-kros'-tik: The acrostic, understood as a short poem in which the first letters of the lines form a word, or name, or sentence, has not yet been proved to occur in ancient Hebrew literature. The supposed examples...
  

• Queen Vashti Deposed

  

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