Esther 1:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. ”

Esther 1:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Vashti. The daughter of Alyattes (king of Lydia), married by Cyaxares to his son Astyages after the battle of Halys. See App-57.
Esther 1:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus. Also Vashti the queen - Vashti is a mere Persian word; and signifies a beautiful or excellent...
Esther 1:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
Esther 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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 exe...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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 ser...
Esther 1:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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. W...
Esther 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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...
Esther 1:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Feast of Ahasuerus. B. C. 519. 1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this...
Esther 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 abo...
Esther 1:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Esther 1:1-9 (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 conce...
Esther 1:9 - 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...
Esther 1:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

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 Xe...
Esther 1:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

THE GREAT FEAST OF KING AHASUERUS AT SUSA , AND THE DISGRACE OF VASHTI EXPOSITION THE GREAT FEAST ( Esther 1:1-17 ). King Ahasuerus (Xerxes) in the third year of...
Esther 1:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Esther 1:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 5:4 ; Esther 5:8
Esther 1:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Women — While the king entertained the men. For this was the common custom of the Persians, that men and women did not feast together.

Esther 1:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Esther 1:9 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 1:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Esther 1:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Esther 1:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Esther 1:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Esther 1:9 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 1:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Esther 1:9 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Esther 1:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Esther 1:9 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Esther 1:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Esther 1:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Esther 1:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Esther 1:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 1:9 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Esther 1:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Esther 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Esther 1:9 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Esther 1:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Esther 1:9 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Esther 1:9 - The Biblical Illustrator

Esther 1:9 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Esther 1:9 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Esther 1:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 1:9 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes