After these things: i.e. in 467. Astyages was now twenty-one. In the seventh year (Esther 2:16); one of these spent in preparations (Esther 2:12).
Ahasuerus. See note on Esther 1:1.
Vashti. See note on Esther 1:9.
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Esther 2:1
1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.