Esther 1:9

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

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8The 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.

10On the seventh day of the feast, the king, feeling happy from drinking wine, ordered the seven eunuchs who were his attendants, Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Karkas,

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Cross References

Esther 5:4Esther replied, “If it please Your Majesty, may the king and Haman come today to a dinner I have prepared for him.”

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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