Esther 1:7

Staten Vertaling

En men gaf te drinken in vaten van goud, en het ene vat was anders dan het andere vat; en er was veel koninklijke wijn, naar des konings vermogen.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En den drank droeg men in gouden vaten op, en gedurig andere en andere vaten, en koninklijken wijn in menigte, zoals slechts de koning geven kon.

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
drank gereikt in gouden bekers, de een verschillend van den ander, en koningswijn in overvloed, naar 's konings rijkdom!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

vessels of gold: 1 Kings 10:21, 2 Chronicles 9:20, Daniel 5:2-4

royal wine: Heb. wine of the kingdom

state of the king: Heb. hand of the king.

Reciprocal: Judges 14:10 - made there 2 Kings 7:15 - vessels

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They gave them drink in vessels of gold, the vessels being divers one from another,.... In the pattern and workmanship of them, though of the same metal, which diversity made the festival the more grand; earthen cups, with the Persians, were reckoned very mean; when a king would disgrace a man, he obliged him to use earthen cups d. The Targum represents these vessels to be the golden vessels of the temple at Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar carried away; which could not be, since they had been delivered by Cyrus to Zerubbabel, Ezra 1:7,

and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king; such as the king was able to give, the best he had, and that in great plenty; the wine the kings of Persia used to drink, as Strabo e relates, was Chalybonian wine, or wine of Helbon, as it is called, Ezekiel 27:18,

Ezekiel 27:18- :, but by the wine of the kingdom, as it may be rendered, is meant wine of the country; the wine of Schiras is reckoned the best in Persia f.

d Ctesias in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 11. e Geograph. l. 15. p. 505. f Universal History, vol. 5. p. 85.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:7. Vessels being diverse — They had different services of plate.