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<A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>gold and silver cups, and a small cup of carbuncle set out of the value of thirty thousand talents, abundant and sweet wine, which the king himself drank. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And this banquet was not according to the appointed law; but so the king would have it: and he charged the stewards to perform his will and that of the company. <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">Queen Vashti’s Refusal<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes <i>dwelt</i>.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Now on the seventh day the king, being merry, told Aman, and Bazan, and Tharrha, and Barazi, and Zatholtha, and Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven chamberlains, servants of king Artaxerxes, <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to shew her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>But queen Astin hearkened not to him to come with the chamberlains: so the king was grieved and angered.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">Queen Vashti Deposed<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And he said to his friends, Thus hast Astin spoken: pronounce therefore upon this <i>case</i> law and judgment. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So Arkesaeus, and Sarsathaeus, and Malisear, the princes of the Persians and Medes, who were near the king, who sat chief <i>in rank</i> by the king, drew near to him, <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and reported to him according to the laws how it was proper to do to queen Astin, because she had not done the things commanded of the king by the chamberlains. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Muchaeus said to the king and to the princes, Queen Astin has not wronged the king only, but also all the king's rulers and princes: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>for he has told them the words of the queen, and how she disobeyed the king. As then, <i>said he</i>, she refused <i>to obey</i> king Artaxerxes, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>so this day shall the other ladies of the chiefs of the Persians and Medes, having heard what she said to the king, dare in the same way to dishonour their husbands. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If then it seem good to the king, let him make a royal decree, and let it be written according to the laws of the Medes and Persians, and let him not alter <i>it</i>: and let not the queen come in to him any more; and let the king give her royalty to a woman better than she. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And let the law of the king which he shall have made, be widely proclaimed, in his kingdom: and so shall all the women give honour to their husbands, from the poor even to the rich.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did as Muchaeus had said, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and sent into all his kingdom through the several provinces, according to their language, in order that men might be feared in their own houses.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nehemiah/13.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nehemiah 13"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nehemiah 13" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../esther/2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Esther 2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Esther 2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>