vashti <EST1 -:9> Also {Vashti} the queen made a feast for the <br>
women<br>
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[in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.<br>
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vashti <EST1 -:11> To bring {Vashti} the queen before the king <br>
with<br>
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the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: <br>
for<br>
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she [was] fair to look on.<br>
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vashti <EST1 -:12> But the queen {Vashti} refused to come at the<br>
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king's commandment by [his] chamberlains: therefore was the king<br>
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very wroth, and his anger burned in him.<br>
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vashti <EST1 -:15> What shall we do unto the queen {Vashti}<br>
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according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment <br>
of<br>
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the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?<br>
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vashti <EST1 -:16> And Memucan answered before the king and the<br>
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princes, {Vashti} the queen hath not done wrong to the king only,<br>
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but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in <br>
all<br>
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the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.<br>
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vashti <EST1 -:17> For [this] deed of the queen shall come abroad<br>
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unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in <br>
their<br>
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eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded<br>
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{Vashti} the queen to be brought in before him, but she came<br>
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ashti <EST1 -:19> If it please the king, let there go a royal<br>
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commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the<br>
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Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That {Vashti} <br>
come<br>
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no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her ro<br>
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yal estate unto another that is better than she.<br>
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vashti <EST2 -:1> After these things, when the wrath of king<br>
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Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered {Vashti}, and what she had<br>
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done, and what was decreed against her.<br>
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vashti <EST2 -:4> And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be<br>
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queen instead of {Vashti}. And the thing pleased the king; and he<br>
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did so.<br>
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vashti <EST2 -:17> And the king loved Esther above all the women,<br>
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and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the<br>
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virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made <br>
her<br>
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queen instead of {Vashti}.<br>
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