Verse 10
DIVORCE OF VASHTI, Esther 1:10-22.
10. On the seventh day The last day of the feast. Compare Esther 1:5.
Merry with wine “The Persians are much addicted to wine,” writes Herodotus, (i, 133.) “They are accustomed to debate the most important affairs when intoxicated, but they reconsider such deliberation the next day, when they are sober, and if they approve it when sober also, they adopt it, if not, they reject it, and whatever they have first resolved on when sober, they reconsider when intoxicated.” This feast of Ahasuerus seems to have increased in riot and drunken revelry as the days passed.
The seven chamberlains Rather, eunuchs, who had principal charge of the royal harem. Their number corresponded to that of the princes, Esther 1:14.
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