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.
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Interpretation
Ahasuerus's feast ended in heaviness, by his own folly. Seasons of peculiar festivity often end in vexation.
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This thought runs through Esther 1:13-17.
Glossary
- Ahasuerus Person
- There are three kings designated by this name in Scripture. (1. ) The father of Darius the Mede, mentioned in Dan. 9:1 . This was probably the Cyaxares I.