The queen Vashti refused to come Being favoured in this refusal by the law of Persia, which was, to keep men's wives, and especially queens, from the view of other men. His anger burned in him It was the more immoderate, because his blood was heated with wine, which made his passion too strong for his reason. Otherwise he would not have thought it decent for the queen, nor safe for himself, to have her beauty, which was very great, exposed in this unusual manner, and would have thought she had acted prudently in refusing.
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Esther 1:12
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.