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The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Esther 1:1-22

Esther 1:0 1. Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus which reigned from India even unto Ethiopia [Ethiopia paid tribute to Xerxes, or Ahasuerus], over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:) 2. That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan [the general abode of the Persian kings] the palace, 3. In the third year of his reign [483 b.c.], he made a feast [a successful campaign had just been finished in Egypt] unto... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Esther 1:10-22

(10) ¶ On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king, (11) To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on. (12) But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Esther 1:22

REFLECTIONS MY Soul! let some of the improvements this scripture furnisheth lead thee to contemplate the sad state of man by the fall? What do we read of this great king and his vast empire of good. What hungry bellies did he fill; what poor did he nourish: and what misery did he relieve? Not a word of these royal acts. How would his name have been handed down to posterity had some sweet records like these have been given to us. And yet infinitely higher, and more illustrious, had his reverence... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Esther 1:10-22

10-22 Ahasuerus's feast ended in heaviness, by his own folly. Seasons of peculiar festivity often end in vexation. Superiors should be careful not to command what may reasonably be disobeyed. But when wine is in, men's reason departs from them. He that had rule over 127 provinces, had no rule over his own spirit. But whether the passion or the policy of the king was served by this decree, God's providence made way for Esther to the crown, and defeated Haman's wicked project, even before it had... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Esther 1:9-22

Vashti's Insubordination and its Punishment v. 9. 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 at the banquet and feast. v. 10. On the seventh day, the last day of the feast, the climax of the banqueting, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, drunkenly happy with the excess of revelry, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Esther 1:1-22

PART FIRSTORIGIN AND INCREASE OF DANGER TO THE JEWSEsther 1-5INTRODUCTIONThe Occasion of the History. The Feast of Ahasuerus and Vashti’s RejectionEsther 1:1-22I. Ahasuerus assembles the princes of his empire around him, and prepares a great feast, in which he endeavours to show his power and glory. Esther 1:1-81Now [And] it came to pass [was] in the days of Ahasuerus [Achashverosh], (this is Ahasuerus which reigned [the one being king] from India [Hodu] even unto [and till] Ethiopia [Cush],... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Esther 1:1-22

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 rotation. It finished with a banquet, open to all the people who dwelt in Shushan, great and small. Whenever men are overcome with wine, there is grave peril for women. Coarseness, indelicacy, and impurity troop in at the door, which has been unlocked by the excess of wine. Who can tell the anguish which... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Esther 1:1-22

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, was taken directly from the Persian records. It is a fragment of secular history taken for sacred purposes. The story reveals the same principle of the overruling of God on behalf of His people which marks all their history. The first scene is a great feast in the palace of the king. It was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Esther 1:1-22

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 that something once stood before them. Even Paton translates, “ And afterward” ! After what? He says strangely, “ This expression is used in continuation of a historical narrative,” and adds, lamely and incorrectly, “ It is an imitation of the beginnings of the older histories.” The tale has... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Esther 1:22

That all sorts of persons, not men only, (who by study or travel many times understand divers languages,) but the women also, might understand it, and therefore be inexcusable if they did not comply with it; for which end it was not only written in each language, for that writing might come but to few hands, but moreover it was published in the several cities and towns by such persons as used to publish the king’s edicts. Others, that he should speak in the language of his own people, i.e. that... read more