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

Bible Comments

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 Not in the open air, as the men were, but more privately, as was fit for women.

Esther 1:9

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