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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 1:21

The saying pleased the king and the princes; partly because their own authority and interest was concerned in it; and especially by the singular providence of God, who designed to bring about his own great work by this small occasion. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Esther 1:21-22

CRITICAL NOTES.] Esther 1:22. According to the language of the people] Obscure. The native tongue of the head of the house to be used in the family.MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH. Esther 1:21-22VASHTI IS STRIPPED OF QUEENLY EXTERNALSPopular oratory is very frequently only the art of articulating the wishes and desires of the multitude. Skill is required at once to comprehend, as if by intuition, those desires; to put them in attractive form, and to speak them forth as if they were novel... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Esther 1:1-22

Let us turn to the book of Esther for our study.The book of Esther is not in a chronological order in these books of history. If the book of Esther were placed in a chronological order, it would have to actually come before the book of Nehemiah.Ezra records the first return from the captivity. Some forty years later Esther came on the scene, and some forty years after that Nehemiah came on the scene. So the book of Esther fits about halfway between the rebuilding of the temple (the decree given... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Esther 1:1-22

Esther 1:1 . From India even to Ethiopia. Darius the Mede appointed one hundred and twenty governors. Hence it appears that this Ahasuérus, the Xerxes Longimanus of Herodotus, had enlarged his conquests, and made the Ganges and the Nile his boundaries. Esther 1:2 . Sat on the throne. He seems to have been employed till now in some conquest, which made him the terror both of the Grecian and the eastern world. Consequently this was a grand coronation, or a military fête, which continued... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Esther 1:16-22

Esther 1:16-22And Memucan answered before the king.Hasty counsellorsIf they had been wise, as counsellors ought to be, they would have been in no haste to give judgment in a matter so important as that which was submitted to them. They would have delayed till passion had cooled, and right reason had been restored. But, half-intoxicated they proceeded to give judgment at once, falling in with the humours of royalty, and hastening to do what could not afterwards be recalled. (T.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Esther 1:21

Est 1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan: Ver. 21. And the saying pleased the king ] Pity but itching ears should have clawing counsellors. Memucan was a fit helve for such a hatchet; and his advice fit lettuce for such lips. What marvel that such a smooth counsellor pleased the king, when as he had before given place to two such bad counsellors - Wine and Anger? And the princes ] Who perceived very likely by the king’s looks... read more