Esther 1:9

Douay-Rheims Bible

Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

Hebrew Names Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Achashverosh.

King James Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

English Standard Version
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Century Version
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

New English Translation
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus' royal palace.

Amplified Bible
Queen Vashti also held a [separate] banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

New American Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

World English Bible
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Queene Vashti made a feast also for the women in the royall house of King Ahashuerosh.

Legacy Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Berean Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

Contemporary English Version
While the men were enjoying themselves, Queen Vashti gave the women a big dinner inside the royal palace.

Complete Jewish Bible
Also Vashti the queen gave a banquet for the women in the royal house belonging to King Achashverosh.

Darby Translation
Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Easy-to-Read Version
Queen Vashti also gave a party for the women in the king's palace.

George Lamsa Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a great feast for all the women in the royal house which belonged to King Akhshirash.

Good News Translation
Meanwhile, inside the royal palace Queen Vashti was giving a banquet for the women.

Lexham English Bible
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Literal Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the royal house which King Ahasuerus owned .

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the quene Vasthi made a feast also for the wemen in the palace of Ahasuerus.

American Standard Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Bible in Basic English
And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the queene Uasthi made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

King James Version (1611)
Also Uasthi the Queene made a feast for the women, in the royall house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

English Revised Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Vasthi, the queen, made a feeste of wymmen in the paleis, where kyng Assuerus was wont to dwelle.

Update Bible Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.

New King James Version
Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Living Translation
At the same time, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

New Life Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a special supper for the women in the beautiful house that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Revised Standard
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Also Vashti the queen, made a banquet for the women, - in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Revised Standard Version
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasu-e'rus.

Young's Literal Translation
Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Contextual Overview

¹ In the days of Assuerus, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty seven provinces: ² When he sat on the throne of his kingdom, the city Susan was the capital of his kingdom. ³ Now in the third year of his reign he made a great feast for all the princes, and for his servants, for the most mighty of the Persians, and the nobles of the Medes, and the governors of the provinces in his sight, ⁴ That he might shew the riches of the glory of his kingdom, and the greatness, and boasting of his power, for a long time, to wit, for a hundred and fourscore days. ⁵ And when the days of the feast were expired, he invited all the people that were found in Susan, from the greatest to the least: and commanded a feast to be made seven days in the court of the garden, and of the wood, which was planted by the care and the hand of the king. ⁶ And there were hung up on every side sky coloured, and green, and violet hangings, fastened with cords of silk, and of purple, which were put into rings of ivory, and were held up with marble pillars. The beds also were of gold and silver, placed in order upon a floor paved with porphyry and white marble: which was embellished with painting of wonderful variety. ⁷ And they that were invited, drank in golden cups, and the meats were brought in divers vessels one after another. Wine also in abundance and of the best was presented, as was worthy of a king’s magnificence. ⁸ Neither was there any one to compel them to drink that were not willing, but as the king had appointed, who set over every table one of his nobles, that every man might take what he would. ⁹ Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the queen: Esther 5:4, Esther 5:8

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created heaven, and earth.

Genesis 1:2
And the earth was void and empty, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God moved over the waters.

Genesis 1:5
And he called the light Day, and the darkness Night; and there was evening and morning one day.

Genesis 1:6
And God said: Let there be a firmament made amidst the waters: and let it divide the waters from the waters.

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament, Heaven; and the evening and morning were the second day.

Genesis 1:9
God also said; Let the waters that are under the heaven, be gathered together into one place: and let the dry land appear. And it was so done.

Genesis 1:11
And he said: let the earth bring forth green herb, and such as may seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, which may have seed in itself upon the earth. And it was so done.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, saying: Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.

Genesis 1:29
And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:

Job 26:7
He stretched out the north over the empty space, and hangeth the earth upon nothing.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women.... For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern nations, to admit of women to their festivals m, but they feasted by themselves. Who Vashti was is not known with any certainty. Bishop Usher, who takes Ahasuerus to be Darius Hystaspis, thinks Vashti was Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, whom he married. The Targumist says, she was the daughter of Evilmerodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar. Her name seems to be the same with Vesta, a deity worshipped by the Persians, as Xenophon n, and signifies vehement fire, which was in great veneration with them; and therefore this queen is most likely to be of Persian original: she kept her feast

in the royal house which belonged to Ahasuerus; her guests not being so many, there was room enough in the king's palace for them, and where it was more decent for them to be than in the open air in the garden, and exposed to the sight of men.

m Justin c Trogo, l. 41. c. 3. n Cyropaedia, l. 1. c. 23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Vashti - If Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti would be Amestris, whom the Greeks regarded as the only legitimate wife of that monarch, and who was certainly married to him before he ascended the throne. The name may be explained either as a corruption of Amestris, or as a title, vahishta, (Sanskrit: vasishtha, the superlative of vasu, “sweet”); and it may be supposed that the disgrace recorded (Esther 1:19-21, see the note) was only temporary; Amestris in the later part of Xerxes’ reign recovering her former dignity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:9. Also Vashti the queen — [Persian] Vashti is a mere Persian word; and signifies a beautiful or excellent woman.

Made a feast for the women — The king, having subdued all his enemies, left no competitor for the kingdom; and being thus quietly and firmly seated on the throne, made this a time of general festivity. As the women of the East never mingle with the men in public, Vashti made a feast for the Persian ladies by themselves; and while the men were in the court of the garden, the women were in the royal house.