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Esther 1. Easy-to-Read Version. Queen Vashti Disobeys the King. 1 This is what happened during the time when Xerxes[ a] was king. Xerxes ruled over the 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia. 2 King Xerxes ruled from his throne in the capital city of Susa. 3 In the third year of Xerxes’ rule, he gave a party for his officers and leaders.
ADDITION A Mordecai’s Dream - In the second year of the reign of Ahasuerus the Great, on the first day of Nisan, Mordecai son of Jair son of Shimei son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream. He was a Jew living in the city of Susa, a great man, serving in the court of the king. He was one of the captives whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had brought from Jerusalem with King ...
The Bible is simply recounting what happened to queen vashti and what the Persian king and councillors said. It’s not making any claims that anything they said or did was correct. It just so happens through that God used this situation to position one of his people into a position where they could be used to save all the Jews throughout the ...
Mar 2, 2023 · Vashti’s Tail. Why did Gabriel attach a tail to Vashti? In other words, why a tail and not a different blemish? The Hebrew word translated as “tail” is “zanav” (root letters: zayin-nun-beit). The noun “zanav” is often translated as tail. However, it can also be translated as “attachment, projection, protrusion, or abnormal ...
Feb 28, 2018 · The king asked her to wear only her royal crown to show off her beauty to his friends. Queen Vashti refused and for that lost her position and had to leave the country. While there are many interpretations of why Queen Vashti might not have come before the king, it is critical to hold her up as an exemplary woman who stands her ground.
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Had Vashti gone to the feast, the king could have looked at her with disdain because she broke Persian custom. (Especially if she had shown up naked!) But by not going, she disobeyed her husband the king. Vashti did not follow the principle of submission found in Ephesians 5:22-24.
