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- She was either executed or banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet to show her beauty as Ahasuerus wished, and was succeeded as queen by Esther, a Jew.
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Vashti was a noble queen and a vicious antisemite; a traditional Persian princess and a proto-feminist agitator. Perhaps she was equally at home in sweeping ball gowns and low-rise comfy pants, and perhaps she was so in touch with her inner beauty that she would have walked the runway wearing nothing at all.
Sep 10, 2021 · After the attendants delivered the message to the queen, the Bible simply tells us, “Queen Vashti refused to come” (Esther 1:12). Queen Vashti’s refusal lit the king’s wine-soaked fuse and ignited his fury. Something had to be done about his wife’s rebellion. But what?
She was either executed or banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet to show her beauty as Ahasuerus wished, and was succeeded as queen by Esther, a Jew. That refusal might be better understood via the Jewish tradition that she was ordered to appear naked.
According Jewish sources, Queen Vashti was the great-granddaughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and the daughter of King Belshazzar. Whatever the case, for her to become queen, she must have been born into an aristocratic family. In those days, many marriages were done for political and economic reasons.
Mar 17, 2019 · After a year of study, Vashti decided to become Jewish. She did not tell Ahasuerus that she had become Jewish because when she told him that she was studying the Torah, he was uninterested.
Jan 4, 2022 · So Queen Vashti was banished, and a search began for a new queen to replace her. Many beautiful virgins were chosen from the kingdom and among them Esther, the Jewish girl. In God’s providence, Esther was eventually made queen in Vashti’s place.
Vashti, high-born, powerful and intelligent, was affronted by her husband’s command – as well she might be. Reared to be queen, she was being treated as a common prostitute. She probably guessed it was a trap, and that whatever she did, she would be the victim.
