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Vashti, unknowing of her father's death, ran to her father's quarters. There she was kidnapped by King Darius of Persia. But Darius took pity on her and gave her to his son, Ahasuerus, to marry.
Sep 10, 2021 · Vashti had royal blood —According to one account (there are many) in the midrash, Vashti was the daughter of Belshazzar, the King of Babylon. She was just a child the night her father died from a bizarre accident—a candelabrum fell on him during a dinner party and crushed his skull.
Feb 7, 2019 · According to the midrash , Vashti (ושתי) was the great-granddaughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon and the daughter of King Belshazzar, making her a Babylonian.
According to on midrashic tradition, Vashti was a princess and Ahasuerus was her father’s steward who acquired regal status by marrying her. Their differences were reflected in Ahasuerus’s behavior at the banquet, when he summoned Vashti to appear before the men at their revelry.
Oct 6, 2021 · Without the bold and courageous decision of Vashti choosing not to be presented as an object of lust, Esther would not have become queen and taken her place in history. Esther was a young orphan who became the Persian queen.
Jan 9, 2012 · I never learned in Sunday School that Esther, whose Jewish name was Hadassah, was forced, along with perhaps thousands of virgin girls from Susa, into King Xerxes harem. Or that the king had banished his first wife, Queen Vashti, for refusing to publicly flaunt her body before his drunken friends.
Vashti was the granddaughter of Nebuchadnezzar (Meg. 10a). She witnessed the Persian conquest of Babylon from her father, Belshazzar. On the night that the city fell, Vashti was so alarmed by the confusion that, unaware that Belshazzar had already been killed, she ran to his private quarters.
