Esther 1:11-21
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to bring Queen Vashti before the king with k her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.
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But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.
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Then the king said to l the wise men m who knew the times (for this was the king's procedure toward all who were versed in law and judgment,
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the men next to him being Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and n Memucan, o the seven princes of Persia and Media, p who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom):
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"According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?"
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Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, "Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
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For the queen's behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt, since they will say, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Queen Vashti to be brought before him, and she did not come.'
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This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard of the queen's behavior will say the same to all the king's officials, and there will be contempt and wrath in plenty.
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If it please the king, let a royal order go out from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes so q that it may not be repealed, that Vashti is never again to come before King Ahasuerus. And let the king give her royal position to another who is better than she.
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So when the decree made by the king is proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, for it is vast, r all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike."
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This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.
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Cross References
Esther 2:17
The king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
Esther 6:8
Let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse that the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set.
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Cross References
Jeremiah 10:7
Who would not fear you, O King of the nations? For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like you.
Daniel 2:12 - 13
Because of this the king was angry and very furious, and commanded that all the wise men of Babylon be destroyed.
Matthew 2:1
Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 12:32
Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
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Cross References
Esther 1:16
Then Memucan said in the presence of the king and the officials, "Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:21
This advice pleased the king and the princes, and the king did as Memucan proposed.
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Cross References
Ezra 7:14
For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God, which is in your hand.
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Cross References
2 Kings 25:19
And from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king's council who were found in the city, and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land, and sixty men of the people of the land who were found in the city.
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Cross References
Esther 8:8
But you may write as you please with regard to the Jews, in the name of the king, and seal it with the king's ring, for an edict written in the name of the king and sealed with the king's ring cannot be revoked.
Daniel 6:8
Now, O king, establish the injunction and sign the document, so that it cannot be changed, according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, which cannot be revoked.
Daniel 6:12
Then they came near and said before the king, concerning the injunction, "O king! Did you not sign an injunction, that anyone who makes petition to any god or man within thirty days except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?" The king answered and said, "The thing stands fast, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be revoked.
Daniel 6:15
Then these men came by agreement to the king and said to the king, "Know, O king, that it is a law of the Medes and Persians that no injunction or ordinance that the king establishes can be changed.
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Cross References
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Ephesians 5:33
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Colossians 3:18
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1 Timothy 2:12
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1 Peter 3:1
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