Esther 1:8

And this banquet was not according to the appointed law; but so the king would have it: and he charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company.

LXX2012 (US English)

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

7gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank.

9Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes lived.

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Cross References

Jeremiah 35:8The prophets that were before me and before you of old, also prophesied over much country, and against great kingdoms, concerning war.

Habakkuk 2:15Woe to him that gives his neighbor to drink the thick lees of wine, and intoxicates him, that he may look upon their secret parts.

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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