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ES-1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this [is]
Ahasuerus which
reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, [over] an hundred and
seven and twenty
provinces:)
ES-1:2 [That] in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the
throne of his
kingdom, which [was] in Shushan the palace,
ES-1:3 In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all
his princes and his
servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes
of the provinces,
[being] before him:
ES-1:4 When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and
the honour of his
excellent majesty many days, [even] and hundred and fourscore
days.
ES-1:5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast
unto all the people
that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and
small, seven days, in
the court of the garden of the king's palace;
ES-1:6 [Where were] white, green, and blue, [hangings],
fastened with cords of fine
linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds
[were of] gold and
silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black,
marble.
ES-1:7 And they gave [them] drink in vessels of gold, (the
vessels being diverse
one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the
state of the king.
ES-1:8 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.
ES-1:9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in]
the royal house which
[belonged] to king Ahasuerus.
ES-1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was
merry with wine, he
commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar,
and Carcas, the
seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the
king,
ES-1:11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the
crown royal, to show the
people and the princes her beauty: for she [was] fair to look on.
ES-1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's
commandment by [his]
chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger
burned in him.
ES-1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the
times, (for so [was] the
king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
ES-1:14 And the next unto him [was] Carshena, Shethar, Admatha,
Tarshish, Meres,
Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media,
which saw the king's
face, [and] which sat the first in the kingdom;)
ES-1:15 What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law,
because she hath
not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the
chamberlains?
ES-1:16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes,
Vashti the queen hath
not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes,
and to all the people
that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
ES-1:17 For [this] deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all
women, so that they
shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be
reported, The king
Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him,
but she came not.
ES-1:18 [Likewise] shall the ladies of Persia and Media say
this day unto all the
king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus
[shall there arise]
too much contempt and wrath.
ES-1:19 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment
from him, and let
it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that
it be not altered,
That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king
give her royal
estate unto another that is better than she.
ES-1:20 And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be
published
throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives
shall give to their
husbands honour, both to great and small.
ES-1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and
the king did according
to the word of Memucan:
ES-1:22 For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into
every province
according to the writing thereof, and to every people after
their language, that
every man should bear rule in his own house, and that [it]
should be published
according to the language of every people.
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