Esther 1:16 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Vashti the queen hath done wrong to all the princes, &c. By giving their wives an example and encouragement to contemn and disobey their husbands. It is a crime of a high nature, and therefore deserves an exemplary punishment.

Esther 1:16

16 And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.