Esther 1-Study Guide-Vashti the Queen refuses King Ahasuerus
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Esther 1:1-3 ...the days of Ahasuerus, (Ahasuerus which reigned, from India - unto Ethiopia...)
when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne...in Shushan the palace...
the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants...
Esther 1:4-6...he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom...an hundred and fourscore days..
the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace- unto great and small
...were white, green, and blue, hangings...with cords of fine linen -
purple to silver rings -pillars of marble: the beds- of gold and silver...
Esther 1:7-8 they gave them drink in vessels of gold...royal wine in abundance...
the drinking was according to the law...
the king had appointed to all the officers of his house....do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther 1:9-12 Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house...
the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded
Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains...
bring Vashti the queen ... with the crown royal, to shew... her beauty...
the queen Vashti refused...the king very wroth...
Esther 1:13-15 ..the king said to the wise men...
next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan,
the seven princes of Persia and Media...
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law...
Esther 1:16-18 Memucan answered... Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only,
but also to all the princes, and to all the people ..
.For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands...
Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes...
Esther 1:19-20 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment...
let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes...
That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another...
Esther 1:21-22 the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan....
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God's Family Trees of The Holy Bible – Research Study Guides of The Old Testament -
Adam to Abraham to David to Jesus
Ketuvim -Writings
BOOK OF ESTHER
CHAPTER 1 - STUDY GUIDE
QUICK STUDY TITLE AREA
Esther 1:1-3 ...the days of Ahasuerus, (Ahasuerus which reigned, from India - unto Ethiopia...)
when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne...in Shushan the palace...
the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants...
Esther 1:4-6...he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom...an hundred and fourscore days..
the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace- unto great and small
...were white, green, and blue, hangings...with cords of fine linen -
purple to silver rings -pillars of marble: the beds- of gold and silver...
Esther 1:7-8 they gave them drink in vessels of gold...royal wine in abundance...
the drinking was according to the law...
the king had appointed to all the officers of his house....do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther 1:9-12 Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house...
the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded
Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains...
bring Vashti the queen ... with the crown royal, to shew... her beauty...
the queen Vashti refused...the king very wroth...
Esther 1:13-15 ..the king said to the wise men...
next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan,
the seven princes of Persia and Media...
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law...
Esther 1:16-18 Memucan answered... Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only,
but also to all the princes, and to all the people ..
.For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands...
Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes...
Esther 1:19-20 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment...
let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes...
That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another...
Esther 1:21-22 the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan....
Esther 1:1-3 ...the days of Ahasuerus, (Ahasuerus which reigned, from India - unto Ethiopia...) when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne...in Shushan the palace...the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants...
1: Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)...
2: That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,
3: In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, being before him:
Esther 1:4-6...he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom...an hundred and fourscore days..the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace- unto great and small, ...were white, green, and blue, hangings...with cords of fine linen -purple to silver rings -pillars of marble: the beds- of gold and silver...
4: When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.
5: And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
6: Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
Esther 1:7-8 they gave them drink in vessels of gold...royal wine in abundance...the drinking was according to the law...the king had appointed to all the officers of his house.... do according to every man's pleasure.
7: And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
8: And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man's pleasure.
Esther 1:9-12 Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house... the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains...bring Vashti the queen... with the crown royal, to shew... her beauty...the queen Vashti refused...the king very wroth...
9: Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
10: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
11: To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.
12: But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
Esther 1:13-15 ..the king said to the wise men... next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media...What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law...
13: Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
14: And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king's face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
15: What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Esther 1:16-18 Memucan answered... Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people ...For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands... Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes...
16: And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
17: For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported,
The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
18: Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
Esther 1:19-20 If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment...let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes..That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another...
19: If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
20: And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.
Esther 1:21-22 the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan....
21: And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
22: For he sent letters into all the king's provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
The Book of Esther, also known in Hebrew as "the Scroll" (Megillah), is a book in the third section (Ketuvim, "Writings") of the Jewish Tanakh (the Hebrew Bible) and in the Christian Old Testament. It relates the story of a Hebrew girl in Persia, born as Hadassah but known as Esther, who becomes queen of Persia and thwarts a genocide of her people. The story forms the core of the Jewish festival of Purim, during which it is read aloud twice: once in the evening and again the following morning. Esther is the only book in the Bible that does not explicitly mention God.
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Description
English: The Book of Esther from the 13th or 14th Centuray, Fez, Maroco on display at the Musée du quai Branly
Medium Parchment, ink, wood
Dimensions 30.5 × 11.5 × 10.5 cm, 237 g
Current location Musée du quai Branly
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled GNU Free Documentation License.
Description
English: The Book of Esther from the 13th or 14th Centuray, Fez, Maroco on display at the Musée du quai Branly
Medium Parchment, ink, wood
Dimensions 30.5 × 11.5 × 10.5 cm, 237 g
Current location Musée du quai Branly
Accession number 71.1934.16.87
Source/Photographer Deror avi, Own work, 2009-02-13
RESEARCH
KING AHASUERUS
AHASUERUS.
By: Gerson B. Levi, Kaufmann Kohler, George A. Barton
www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/967-ahasuerus
Jewish Encyclopedia
Ahasuerus (Ancient Greek: Ξέρξης Xerxes; Persian: اخشورش Aَxšoreš; Old Persian: Xšayārša; Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Aẖashverosh ; ʼĂḥašwērôš; Greek: Ασουηρος, translit. Asouēros in the Septuagint; or Latin: Assuerus in the Vulgate; commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and Apocrypha. This name (or title) is applied in the Hebrew Scriptures to three rulers. The same name is also applied uncertainly to a Babylonian official (or Median king) noted in the Book of Tobit.
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KING AHASUERUS
AHASUERUS.
By: Gerson B. Levi, Kaufmann Kohler, George A. Barton
www.jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/967-ahasuerus
Jewish Encyclopedia
Ahasuerus (Ancient Greek: Ξέρξης Xerxes; Persian: اخشورش Aَxšoreš; Old Persian: Xšayārša; Hebrew: אֲחַשְׁוֵרוֹשׁ, Aẖashverosh ; ʼĂḥašwērôš; Greek: Ασουηρος, translit. Asouēros in the Septuagint; or Latin: Assuerus in the Vulgate; commonly transliterated Achashverosh) is a name used several times in the Hebrew Bible, as well as related legends and Apocrypha. This name (or title) is applied in the Hebrew Scriptures to three rulers. The same name is also applied uncertainly to a Babylonian official (or Median king) noted in the Book of Tobit.
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QUEEN VASHTI
Queen Vashti (Hebrew: ושתי, Koine Greek: Αστιν Astin) is the first wife of Persian King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. She is banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet to show her beauty as the king wished, and Esther is chosen to succeed her as queen. In the Midrash, Vashti is described as wicked and vain. She is viewed as an independent-minded heroine in feminist interpretations of the Purim story. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vashti wikipedia
NAMES OF ESTHER 1
king Ahasuerus
Vashti the queen
Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, (the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king)
Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, (the seven princes of Persia and Media-sat first in the kingdom...)
PLACES OF ESTHER 1
India even unto Ethiopia (Areas where King Ahasuerus reigned.)
Shushan (Palace)
Persia and Media
INDIA
India, officially the Republic of India (IAST: Bhārat Gaṇarājya),is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country (with over 1.2 billion people), and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the south-west, and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north-east; and Myanmar (Burma) and Bangladesh to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; in addition, India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
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ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia (/ˌiːθiˈoʊpiə/; Amharic: ኢትዮጵያ?, ʾĪtyōṗṗyā, About this sound listen (help·info)), officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk About this sound listen (help·info)), is a sovereign state located in the Horn of Africa. It shares a border with Eritrea to the north and northeast, Djibouti and Somalia to the east, Sudan and South Sudan to the west, and Kenya to the south. With over 100 million inhabitants,[2] Ethiopia is the most populous landlocked country in the world, as well as the second-most populous nation on the African continent after Nigeria. It occupies a total area of 1,100,000 square kilometres (420,000 sq mi), and its capital and largest city is Addis Ababa.
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PERSIA
The Persian Empire (Iran) is any of a series of imperial dynasties centered in Persia (Iran). The first of these was established by Cyrus the Great in 550 BCE with the conquest of Media, Lydia and Babylonia. Several later dynasties "claimed to be heirs of the Achaemenids".
Persian dynastic history was interrupted by the Muslim conquest of Persia in 651 and later by the Mongol conquest of Khwarezmia.
The main religion of ancient Persia was Zoroastrianism, but after the seventh century, it was replaced by Islam.
In the modern era, a series of Islamic dynasties ruled Persia independently of the universal caliphate. Since 1979 Persia (Iran) has been an Islamic republic.
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MEDIA
Ancient region, Iran
Written by: The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica
www.britannica.com/place/Media-ancient-region-Iran
SUSHAN THE PALACE
SHUSHAN (Susa; Ḥebrew, "Shushan," or "Shushan ha-Birah" [Shushan the Palace]; Assyrian, "Sushan"; Elamitie, "Shushin," "Shushun"; Greek, Σουάν, ΣοῡΣα);
By: Emil G. Hirsch, Louis H. Gray, Wilhelm Bacher
jewishencyclopedia.com/articles/13621-shushan
Jewish Encyclopedia
BIBLICAL RESEARCH
KING AHASUERUS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT
The Book of Daniel
Chapter 9:1
1: In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans;
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Ezra 4:6
6: And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem
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