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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 be repealed 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

• Vashti

  [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.
  

• Memucan

  [ebd] dignified, one of the royal counsellors at the court of Ahasuerus, by whose suggestion Vashti was divorced (Esther 1:14, 16, 21).
  [isbe] MEMUCAN - me-mu'-kan (memukhan; derivation unknown but probably of Persian origin (Est 1:14,16,21)): One of "the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom." Ahasuerus consults t...
  [smith] (dignified), one of the seven princes of Persia in the reign of Ahasuerus, who "saw the king?s face," and sat first in the kingdom. (Esther 1:14,16,21)
  [nave] MEMUCAN, one of the seven princes of Ahasuerus who counsels the king to divorce Queen Vashti, Esth. 1:14-21.
  

• 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...
  

• 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...
  

• 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,...
  

• 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 ...
  

• 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...
  

• 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,...
  

• 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...
  

• 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 ...
  

• Babylon

  [nave] BABYLON City of Built by Nimrod, Gen. 10:10. In the land of Shinar, Gen. 10:10; 11:2. Tower of, Gen. 11:1-9. Capital of the kingdom of Babylon, Dan. 4:30; 2 Kin. 25:13; 2 Chr. 36:6, 7, 10, 18, 20. Gates of, Isa. 45:1, 2...
  

• Chamberlain

  [ebd] a confidential servant of the king (Gen. 37:36; 39:1). In Rom. 16:23 mention is made of "Erastus the chamberlain." Here the word denotes the treasurer of the city, or the quaestor, as the Romans styled him. He is almost the ...
  [isbe] CHAMBERLAIN - cham'-ber-lin: In the Old Testament the word rendered chamberlain, caric, is more properly "eunuch," an officer which oriental monarchs placed over their harems (Est 1:10,12,15; 2:3,14,21; 4:4 f; 6:2,14; 7:9; 2...
  [nave] CHAMBERLAIN, an officer of a king, 2 Kin. 23:11; Esth. 1:10-15; 2:3-21; 4:4, 5; Acts 12:20; Rom. 16:23.
  

• 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...
  

• Proclamation

  [nave] PROCLAMATION Imperial, 2 Chr. 30:1-10; Esth. 1:22; 6:9; 8:10-14; Isa. 40:3, 9; Dan. 3:4-7; 4:1; 5:29. Emancipation, 2 Chr. 36:23; Ezra 1:1-4.
  

• Flax

  [nave] FLAX In Egypt, Ex. 9:31. In Palestine, Josh. 2:6. Linen made from, Prov. 31:13; Isa. 19:6; Hos. 2:5, 9. Robes made of, Esth. 1:16; Ezek. 40:3. See: Linen. Figurative Smoking flax not quenched, Isa. 42:3; Matt. 12:20.
  

• RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY

  [isbe] RELATIONSHIPS, FAMILY - re-la'-shun-ships: I. CONSANGUINITY 1. In General 2. Parents and Children 3. Brothers and Sisters 4. Uncles, Aunts, Cousins, Kinsmen II. AFFINITY 1. Husband and Wife 2. Father-in-Law, etc. 3. Brother-...
  

• 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...
  

• 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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