Esther 1:8

The king had ruled that there was to be no limit on how much a guest could drink; he had told his servants to give each guest whatever they wanted.

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In The King James Version

And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

In Context

7Drinks were served in golden goblets of different kinds, and the royal wine flowed freely because of the king's generosity.

9Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Xerxes.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 35:8We have done exactly what our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab told us. None of us have ever drunk wine, and that includes our wives and our sons and daughters as well as us.

Habakkuk 2:15What disaster is coming to you who make your neighbors drunk! You force your cup of anger on them and make them drink so you may see them naked.

Matthew Henry on Esther 1:2-10

Esther How the providence of God watched over the Jews that had returned out of captivity to their own land, and what great and kind things were done for them, we read in the two foregoing books; but there were many who staid behind, having not zeal enough for God's house, and the holy land and city, to carry them through the difficulties of a removal thither. These, one would think, should have been excluded the special protection of Providence, as unworthy the name of Israelites; but our God deals not with us… Read the whole commentary →

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