Esther 1:11 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was faird to look on. ”

• Esther 1:11 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  To bring Vashti the queen - This command, though contrary to Persian customs, is not out of harmony with the character of Xerxes; and is evidently related as something strange and unusual. Otherw...

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• Esther 1:11 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  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 tha...

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• Esther 1:11 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  people . peoples.

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• Esther 1:11 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  To 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. To bring Vashti the queen - The Targum adds naked. For s...

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• Esther 1:11 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  To 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. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Esther 1:11 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  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.. Ethio...

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• Esther 1:11 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  To bring Vashti. — It is evident from the way in which the incident is introduced that had Ahasuerus been sober he would not have asked such a thing. Vashti naturally sends a refusal. Crown royal...

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• Esther 1:11 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  AHASUERUS AND VASHTI Esther 1:1-22 THE character of Ahasuerus illustrates the Nemesis of absolutism, by showing how unlimited power is crushed and dissolved beneath the weight of its own immens...

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• Esther 1:11 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Vashti's Noble Refusal Esther 1:1-22 The book opens with a royal festival, which lasted for six months, Esther 1:1-9 . Perhaps the princes came up from their governments to partake of it in ro...

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• Esther 1:11 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The events recorded in the Book of Esther occurred between the completion of the Temple and the mission of Ezra (between Ezra 6:1-22 ; Ezr 7:1-28). In all likelihood the narrative, as we have it, wa...

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• Esther 1:11 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (10) В¶ 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 p...

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• Esther 1:11 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  To bring Vashti the queen before the king ,.... Not against her will, or by force; but they were sent to let her know it was the king's pleasure that she should come to him immediately: with the c...

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• Esther 1:11 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  To 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. Ver. 11. To bring Vashti the queen before the king ] T...

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• Esther 1:11 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  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 ar...

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• Esther 1:11 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Vashti's Refusal to Appear; Vashti Divorced. B. C. 519.       10 On the seventh day, when th...

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• Esther 1:11 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Esther 1:11 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 1:12 . Vashti refused to come] It was regarded as something unheard of if the queen appeared in public unveiled.— Lange . Vashti means the best. Esther 1:13 . Which k...

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• Esther 1:11 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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 con...

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• Esther 1:11 - The Biblical Illustrator

  To bring Vashti the queen before the king. Vanity Whatever be the ruling passion of a man, whether it be pride, vanity, or anger, or lust, or impiety, or even benevolence, it will display itsel...

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• Esther 1:11 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE DISGRACE OF VASHTI ( Esther 1:10-17 ). On the seventh day of the feast "to all in Shushan" ( Esther 1:5 ), the king having excited himself with drink, took it into his he...

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• Esther 1:11 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Vashti's Insubordination and its Punishment

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• Esther 1:11 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 25:3 ; 2 Samuel 14:25 ; Mark 6:21 ; Mark 6:22 ; Proverbs 16:9 ; Proverbs 23:29-33 ; Proverbs 31:30

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