Esther 1:9
New International Version
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

New Living Translation
At the same time, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

English Standard Version
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

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

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

New King James Version
Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New American Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

NASB 1995
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

NASB 1977
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Amplified Bible
Queen Vashti also held a [separate] banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

Christian Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Vashti the Queen made a great feast for all the women in the house of the kingdom of King Akhashiresh

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

Contemporary English Version
While the men were enjoying themselves, Queen Vashti gave the women a big dinner inside the royal palace.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Queen Vashti also held a banquet for the women at the royal palace of King Xerxes.

Good News Translation
Meanwhile, inside the royal palace Queen Vashti was giving a banquet for the women.

International Standard Version
Queen Vashti also held a banquet in the royal palace of King Ahasuerus for the women.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Literal Standard Version
Also Vashti the queen has made a banquet for women, in the royal house that King Ahasuerus has.

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

New American Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the royal palace of King Ahasuerus.

NET Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus' royal palace.

New Revised Standard Version
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

New Heart English Bible
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Achshayarsh.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

World English Bible
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Young's Literal Translation
Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

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Context
Queen Vashti's Refusal
9Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes. 10On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—…

Cross References
Ezra 4:6
At the beginning of the reign of Xerxes, an accusation was lodged against the people of Judah and Jerusalem.

Esther 1:8
By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.

Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the king's heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him--Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas--


Treasury of Scripture

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

the queen.

Esther 5:4,8
And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him…

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Esther 1
1. Xerxes makes royal feasts.
10. Vashti, sent for, refuses to come.
13. Xerxes, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and decrees men's sovereignty.














(9) Vashti.--According to Gesenius, the name Vashti means beautiful. Among the Persians it was customary that one wife of the sovereign should be supreme over the rest, and her we sometimes find exercising an authority which contrasts strangely with the degraded position of women generally. Such a one was Atossa, the mother of Xerxes. Vashti, too, before her deposition, was evidently the queen par excel. lence. We find, however, that the name given by the Greek writers to the queen of Xerxes was Amestris, of whose cruelty and dissolute life numerous details are given us by Herodotus and others. There seem good grounds for believing that she was the wife of Xerxes before he became king, which if established would of itself be sufficient to disprove the theory of some who would identify Esther and Amestris. Moreover, Herodotus tells us (7:61. 82) that Amestris was the cousin of Xerxes, the daughter of his father's brother; and although we cannot view Esther as of a specially high type of womanhood, still it would be most unjust to identify her with one whose character is presented to us in most unlovely guise. Bishop Wordsworth suggests that Amestris was a wife who had great influence with Xerxes between the fall of Vashti and the rise of Esther. If, however, Amestris was really the chief wife before Xerxes came to the throne, this could hardly be, and the time allowed seems much too scanty, seeing that in it falls the invasion of Greece. Or, lastly, we may with Canon Rawlinson say that Vashti is Amestris (the two names being different reproductions of the Persian, or Vashti being a sort of title) and that the deposition was a temporary one.

The women.--There should be no article.

Verse 9. - Vashti, the queen. The only wife of Xerxes known to the Greeks was Amestris, the daughter of Otanes, one of the seven conspirators (Herod., 7:61). Xerxes probably took her to wife as soon as he was of marriageable age, and before he ascended the throne had a son by her, who in his seventh year was grown up (ibid. 9:108). It would seem to be certain that if Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti must be Amestris. The names themselves are not very remote, since will readily interchange with v; but Vashti might possibly represent not the real name of the queen, but a favourite epithet, such as vahista, "sweetest." Made a feast for the women. Men and women did not take their meals together in Persia unless in the privacy of domestic life (Brisson, 'De Regn. Pers.,' 2. pp. 273-276). If the women, therefore, were to partake in a festivity, it was necessary that they should be entertained separately. In the royal house. In the gynaeceum or harem, which was probably on the southern side of the great pillared hall at Susa (Fergusson).

CHAPTER 1:10-22 THE DISGRACE OF VASHTI (Esther 1:10-22). On the seventh day of the feast "to all in Shushan" (ver. 5), the king having excited himself with drink, took it into his head to send a message to Vashti, requiring her to make her appearance in the banquet of the men, since he desired to exhibit her beauty to the assembled guests, as "she was fair to look on" (ver. 11). His design must have been to present her unveiled to the coarse admiration of a multitude of semi-drunken revellers, in order that they might envy him the possession of so lovely a wife. Such a proceeding was a gross breach of Persian etiquette, and a cruel outrage upon one whom he above all men was bound to protect. Vashti, therefore, declined to obey (ver. 12). Preferring the risk of death to dishonour, she braved the anger of her despotic lord, and sent him back a message by his chamberlains that she would not come. We can well understand that to an absolute monarch such a rebuff, in the face of his whole court and of some hundreds or thousands of assembled guests, must have been exasperating in the extreme. At the moment when he had thought to glorify himself by a notable display of his omnipotence, he was foiled, defeated, made a laughing-stock to all Susa. "Therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him." It is to his credit that, being thus fiercely enraged, he did not proceed to violence, but so far restrained himself as to refer the matter to the judgment of others, and ask the "seven princes" the question, "What is to be done according to law unto queen Vashti, for not performing the commandment of the king?" (ver. 15). The advice of the princes, uttered by one of their body (vers. 16-20), and assented to by the remainder (ver. 21), was, that Yashti should be degraded from the position of queen, and her place given to another. This sentence was supported by specious arguments based upon expediency, and ignoring entirely the outrageous character of the king's command, which was of course the real, and sole, justification of Vashti's disobedience. It was treated as a simple question of the wife's duty to obey her husband, and the husband's right to enforce submission. Ahasuerus, as might be expected, received the decision of his obsequious counsellors with great satisfaction, and forthwith sent letters into all the provinces of his vast empire, announcing what had been done, and requiring wives everywhere to submit themselves unreservedly to the absolute rule of their lord (ver. 22).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Queen
הַמַּלְכָּ֔ה (ham·mal·kāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4436: Queen -- a queen

Vashti
וַשְׁתִּ֣י (waš·tî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 2060: Vashti -- queen of Pers

also
גַּ֚ם (gam)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

gave
עָשְׂתָ֖ה (‘ā·śə·ṯāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

a banquet
מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה (miš·têh)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 4960: Drink, drinking, a banquet, feast

for the women
נָשִׁ֑ים (nā·šîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

in the royal
הַמַּלְכ֔וּת (ham·mal·ḵūṯ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4438: Royalty, royal power, reign, kingdom

palace
בֵּ֚ית (bêṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1004: A house

of King
לַמֶּ֥לֶךְ (lam·me·leḵ)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4428: A king

Xerxes.
אֲחַשְׁוֵרֽוֹשׁ׃ (’ă·ḥaš·wê·rō·wōš)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 325: Ahasuerus -- king of Persia


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