TSK - ESTHER 1

  1  Ahasuerus makes royal feasts.
10  Vashti, sent for, refuses to come.
13  Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and
    makes the decree of men's sovereignty.


VERSE 1
- Ahasuerus.
  Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the
  Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the
  Septuagint and Josephus.  See note on Ezr 6:14.

   * Ezr 4:6 Da 9:1
- from India.
   * Es 8:9 Isa 18:1; 37:9
- an hundred.
   * Da 6:1


VERSE 2 
 - sat.
   * 2Sa 7:1 1Ki 1:46 Da 4:4
- Shushan.
   * Es 2:3; 3:15; 4:16; 9:12-15 Ne 1:1 Da 8:2


VERSE 3 
 - A.M. 3542.  B.C. 462.  he made.
   * Es 2:18 Ge 40:20 1Ki 3:15 Da 5:1 Mr 6:21
- of Persia.
   * :14 Ezr 1:2 Isa 21:2 Jer 51:11 Da 5:28; 8:20
- the nobles.
   * Da 3:2,3; 6:1,6,7


VERSE 4 
 - When he.
   * Isa 39:2 Eze 28:5 Da 4:30
- the riches.
   * Ps 76:1-4; 145:5,12,13 Da 2:37-44; 7:9-14 Mt 4:8; 6:13 Ro 9:23
   * Eph 1:18 Col 1:27 Re 4:11
- excellent.
   * 1Ch 29:11,12,25 Job 40:10 Ps 21:5; 45:3; 93:1 Da 4:36; 5:18
   * 2Pe 1:16,17


VERSE 5 
 - present.  Heb. found.  seven days.
   * 2Ch 7:8,9; 30:21-25


VERSE 6 
 - white.
   * Ex 26:1,31,32,36,37
- blue.  or, violet.
   * Es 8:15
- the beds.
  These were couches, covered with gold and silver cloth, on
  which the guests reclined; for the Orientals do not sit, but
  recline at their meals.

   * Es 7:8 Eze 23:41 Am 2:8; 6:4
- red, etc.  or, of porphyre, and marble, and alabaster, and
  stone of blue color.


VERSE 7 
 - vessels of gold.
   * 1Ki 10:21 2Ch 9:20 Da 5:2-4
- royal wine.  Heb. wine of the kingdom.  state of the king.
  Heb. hand of the king.


VERSE 8 
 - none did compel.
  Every person drank what he pleased.  Among the Greeks,
  however, each guest was obliged to keep the round, or leave
  the company:  hence the proverb [                          ,]
  Drink, or begone.  Mr.  Herbert, in his poem entitled "The
  Church Porch," has severely reprobated this vile custom.  In
  Britain, however, this demoralizing custom is now almost
  destroyed, and a new era of social pleasure is arising, by
  temperate habits, increased domestic comforts, and the spread
  of gospel truths.

   * Jer 35:8; 51:7 Hab 2:15,16
- the officers.
   * Joh 2:8


VERSE 9 
 - the queen.
   * Es 5:4,8


VERSE 10 
 - the heart.
   * Ge 43:34 Jud 16:25 1Sa 25:36,37 2Sa 13:28 Pr 20:1 Ec 7:2-4
   * Ec 10:19 Eph 5:18,19
- Harbona.
   * Es 7:9
- Harbonah.  chamberlains.  or, eunuchs.
   * Da 1:3-5,18,19


VERSE 11 
 - Vashti.
   * Pr 16:9; 23:29-33 Mr 6:21,22
- fair to look on.  Heb. good of countenance.
   * 1Sa 25:3 2Sa 14:25 Pr 31:30


VERSE 12 
 - the queen.
  This refusal of Vashti's, to expose herself to the view of
  such a group of drunken Bacchanalians, was highly
  praiseworthy, and became the dignity of her rank and the
  modesty of her sex.

- refused.
   * Ge 3:16 Eph 5:22,24 1Pe 3:1
- by his chamberlains.  Heb. which was by the hand of his
  eunuchs.  was the king.
   * Pr 19:12; 20:2 Da 2:12; 3:13,19 Na 1:6 Re 6:16,17
- burned.
   * Ex 32:19,22 De 29:20 Ps 74:1; 79:5


VERSE 13 
 - the wise.
   * Jer 10:7 Da 2:2,12,27; 4:6,7; 5:7 Mt 2:1
- knew.
   * 1Ch 12:32 Mt 16:3


VERSE 14 
 - the seven.
   * Ezr 7:14
- saw.
   * 2Ki 25:19 Mt 18:10 Re 22:4


VERSE 15 
 - What shall we do.  Heb. What to do.
   * Es 6:6


VERSE 16 
 - Vashti.
  This reasoning was inconsequent and false.  Vashti had not
  generally disobeyed the king, therefore she could be no
  precedent for the general conduct of the Persian women.  She
  disobeyed only in one particular; and this, to serve a
  purpose, Memucan draws into a general consequence:  and the
  rest came into the conclusion, being either too intoxicated to
  be able to discern right from wrong, or too intent on reducing
  women to a state of vassalage, to neglect the present
  favorable opportunity.

- done wrong.
   * Ac 18:14; 25:10 1Co 6:7,8


VERSE 17 
 - despise.
   * 2Sa 6:16 Eph 5:33


VERSE 18 
 - the ladies.
  {Saroth,} the princesses:  but the meaning is well expressed
  by our term ladies.

   * Jud 5:29 1Ki 11:3


VERSE 19 
 - it please the king.  Heb. it be good with the king.
   * :21; 3:9; 8:5
- from him.  Heb. from before him.  it be not altered.  Heb. it
  pass not away.
   * Es 8:8 Da 6:8-15,17
  Let it be inserted among the permanent laws, and be made a
  part of the constitution of the empire.  The Persians seem to
  have affected such a degree of wisdom in the construction of
  their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never
  be repealed; and this formed the ground of the saying, "The
  laws of the Medes and Persians that change not."

- another.  Heb. her companion.  that is better.
   * 1Sa 15:28 1Ki 3:28


VERSE 20 
 - throughout.
   * De 17:13; 21:21
- all the wives.
   * Eph 5:33 Col 3:18 1Pe 3:1-7


VERSE 21 
 - pleased the king.  Heb. was good in the eyes of the king.
   * :19; 2:4 Ge 41:37


VERSE 22 
 - into every province.
   * Es 3:12; 8:9 Da 3:29; 4:1
- that every man.
  Both the law of God and common sense taught this from the
  foundation of the world; and this parade of enactment was only
  to deprive Vashti of her crown.

   * Eph 5:22-24 1Ti 2:12 Tit 2:4,5
- it should, etc.  Heb. one should publish it according to the
  language of his country.
   * Es 3:12
- according.
   * Lu 16:8 Ac 2:5-11 1Co 14:19,20



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