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Esther 1:11-12 KJV
Esther · chapter 1 · verses 11–12
11To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. 12But 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.Esther 1:11-12 · King James Version
Esther 1:11-12 in context
9Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
10On 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,
11To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
12But 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.
13Then 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:
14And 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;)
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- chamberlainsçârîyça eunuchH5631 →
- commandmentdâbâra wordH1697 →
- princessara head personH8269 →
- refusedmâʼênto refuseH3985 →
- VashtiVashtîyVashti, the queen of XerxesH2060 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- bringbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
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We have here a damp to all the mirth of Ahasuerus's feast; it ended in heaviness, not as Job's children's feast by a wind from the wilderness, not as Belshazzar's by a hand-writing on the wall, but by is own folly.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-22