Esther 1:9
What meaning of the esther 1:9 in the Bible?
What does Esther 1:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus."
What does Esther 1:9 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus."
Verse Esther 1:9. _ALSO VASHTI THE QUEEN_] [Persian] _Vashti_ is a mere _Persian_ word; and signifies a _beautiful_ or _excellent woman_. _MADE A FEAST FOR THE WOMEN_] The king, having subdued all hi...
VASHTI - If Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti would be Amestris, whom the Greeks regarded as the only legitimate wife of that monarch, and who was certainly married to him before he ascended the throne. The...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS THE BANQUETS AND QUEEN VASHTI DISOWNED CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The first feast of the king (Esther 1:1)_ 2. The king's feast unto all the people (Esther 1:5) 3. The queen's feast...
ESTHER 1. THE ROYAL FEAST. VASHTI'S DISOBEDIENCE AND DEGRADATION. The opening words in MT (and it came to pass) are in good Heb style, which shows that an able scribe wrote here. But they prove that s...
VASHTI. The daughter of Alyattes (king of Lydia), married by Cyaxares to his son Astyages after the battle of Halys. See App-57....
_Vashti the queen_ If we identify Ahasuerus with Xerxes, the queen here mentioned must have been Amestris, his only wife known to secular history. She was daughter of Otanes (Herod. vii. 61), one of t...
VASHTI THE QUEEN MADE A FEAST, &C.— Dr. Shaw observes, that, as in former ages, so at present, it is the custom in the eastern countries, at all their festivals and entertainments, for the men to be t...
B. Defiance TEXT: Esther 1:9-12 9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. 10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry...
_ALSO VASHTI THE QUEEN MADE A FEAST FOR THE WOMEN IN THE ROYAL HOUSE WHICH BELONGED TO KING AHASUERUS._ Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women. The celebration was double; because, as accor...
THE DISOBEDIENCE AND DISGRACE OF QUEEN VASHTI 1. Ahasuerus] LXX has 'Artaxerxes,' but probably 'Xerxes,' the son of Darius Hystaspis, is meant, who succeeded his father in 485 b.c. INDIA.. ETHIOPIA]...
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF ESTHER The events that the first chapter of the book of Esther describes happened about 483 BC (Before Christ). Over 100 years ea...
VASHTI. — According to Gesenius, the name Vashti means _beautiful._ Among the Persians it was customary that one wife of the sovereign should be supreme over the rest, and her we sometimes find exerci...
גַּ֚ם וַשְׁתִּ֣י הַ מַּלְכָּ֔ה עָשְׂתָ֖ה מִשְׁתֵּ֣ה נָשִׁ֑ים בֵּ֚ית הַ מַּלְכ֔וּת אֲשֶׁ֖ר לַ † מֶּ֥לֶךְ...
AHASUERUS AND VASHTI Esther 1:1 THE character of Ahasuerus illustrates the Nemesis of absolutism, by showing how unlimited power is crushed and dissolved beneath the weight of its own immensity. The...
VASHTI'S NOBLE REFUSAL Esther 1:1 The book opens with a royal festival, which lasted for six months, Esther 1:1. Perhaps the princes came up from their governments to partake of it in rotation. It fi...
The events recorded in the Book of Esther occurred between the completion of the Temple and the mission of Ezra (between Ezra 6:1; Ezr 7:1-28). In all likelihood the narrative, as we have it, was take...
_Vasthi. Septuagint Astin. (Haydock) --- Serarius suspects she was the king's sister, or daughter, as such marriages were common in Persia. (Tirinus) --- The name is not very different from that of At...
(2) That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace, (3) In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his serv...
Introduction to Esther I. INTRODUCTION A. As we begin the book of Esther, it is appropriate to "set it up" by way of little history. 1. The book was written approximately 465 years before the birth...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unackno...
ALSO VASHTI THE QUEEN MADE A FEAST FOR THE WOMEN.... For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern nations, to admit of women to their festivals m, but they feasted by themselves. Who...
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus. Ver. 9. _Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women_] Heb. A feast, or a compotation of...
_Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women_ While the king entertained the men. For this was the common custom of the Persians, that men and women did not feast together. _In the royal house_ N...
Also Vashti, the queen, made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus, in her own apartments of the palace, for according to Oriental custom the sexes did not mingle a...
THE FIRST FEAST OF THE KING (vv. 1-4) Ahasuerus was a name given to the chief king of Persia.The Ahasuerus of verse 1 is recorded in history as Xerxes 1. His empire extended over a very large area,...
1-9 The pride of Ahasuerus's heart rising with the grandeur of his kingdom, he made an extravagant feast. This was vain glory. Better is a dinner of herbs with quietness, than this banquet of wine, wi...
Whilst the king entertained the men; for this was the common custom of the Persians, that men and women did not feast together, but in several places....
Esther 1:9 Queen H4436 Vashti H2060 made H6213 (H8804) feast H4960 women H802 royal H4438 palace H1004 King H4428 Ahasuerus H325 the queen - Esther 5:4, Esther 5:8...
Esther 1:1 _(with Philippians 4:5)_ I. The book of Esther is to be held in everlasting remembrance, if only as showing to all ages and to all peoples how much the heavenly love and care concern them...
CONTENTS: Ahasuerus' great feast and the story of Vashti. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Vashti, Memucan, Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena. CONCLUSION: Better is a dinner of herbs with q...
Esther 1:1. _From India even to Ethiopia._ Darius the Mede appointed one hundred and twenty governors. Hence it appears that this Ahasuérus, the Xerxes Longimanus of Herodotus, had enlarged his conque...
_In the third year of his reign, he made a feast._ THE OCCASION OF THE FEAST It was the third year of the reign of Xerxes. Now we know from the Greek historian Herodotus that in that very year Xerxes...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 1:1 Introduction. The author sets the scene for the main action by describing Queen Vashti’s downfall (Esther 1:1), her replacement by Esther (Esther 2:1), and how Mordecai preve...
MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. Esther 1:9 VASHTI, THE PERSIAN MONARCH’S QUEEN I. HER SIGNIFICANT NAME. Those critics who determine the personality of Ahasuerus do not speak so positively about the...
THE GREAT FEAST OF KING AHASUERUS AT SUSA, AND THE DISGRACE OF VASHTI EXPOSITION THE GREAT FEAST (Esther 1:1). King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) in the third year of his reign, which was B.C. 484-483, entertai...
Let us turn to the book of Esther for our study. The book of Esther is not in a chronological order in these books of history. If the book of Esther were placed in a chronological order, it would have...
Esther 5:4; Esther 5:8...
Women — While the king entertained the men. For this was the common custom of the Persians, that men and women did not feast together....
How could Esther participate in a pagan beauty contest? PROBLEM: It is evident that Esther was selected by God as His instrument to deliver Israel from evil at the appointed time (Esther 4:14). Howev...