Esther 1:9

Wycliffe Bible

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

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.

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.

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

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 daies of kyng Assuerus, that regnede fro Ynde `til to Ethiopie, on an hundrid and seuene and twenti prouynces, whanne he sat in the seete of his rewme, <sup>2</sup> the citee Susa was the bigynnyng of his rewme. <sup>3</sup> Therfor in the thridde yeer of his empire he made a greet feeste to alle hise princes and children, the strongeste men of Persis, and to the noble men of Medeis, and to the prefectis of prouynces, bifor him silf, <sup>4</sup> to schewe the richessis of the glorie of his rewme, and the gretnesse, and boost of his power in myche tyme, that is, an hundrid and `foure scoor daies. ⁵ And whanne the daies of the feeste weren fillid, he clepide to feeste al the puple that was foundun in Susa, fro the moost `til to the leeste; and he comaundide the feeste to be maad redi bi seuene daies in the porche of the orcherd and wode, that was set with the kyngis ournement and hond. <sup>6</sup> And tentis of `the colour of the eir, and of gold, and of iacynct, susteyned with coordis of bijs, and of purpur, hangiden on ech side, whiche weren set in cerclis of yuer, and weren vndur set with pilers of marble; also seetis at the maner of beddis of gold and of siluer `weren disposid on the pawment arayede with smaragde and dyuerse stoon; which pawment peynture made fair bi wondurful dyuersite. <sup>7</sup> Sotheli thei, that weren clepid to meet, drunkun in goldun cuppis, and metes weren borun in with othere `and othere vessels; also plenteuouse wiyn, and `the best was set, as it was worthi to the greet doyng of the kyng. <sup>8</sup> And `noon was that constreynede `men not willynge to drynke; but so the kyng hadde ordeyned, `makynge souereyns of hise princes `to alle boordis, that ech man schulde take that, that he wolde. ⁹ Also Vasthi, the queen, made a feeste of wymmen in the paleis, where kyng Assuerus was wont to dwelle.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the bigynnyng God made of nouyt heuene and erthe.

Genesis 1:2
Forsothe the erthe was idel and voide, and derknessis weren on the face of depthe; and the Spiryt of the Lord was borun on the watris.

Genesis 1:5
dai, and the derknessis, nyyt. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, o daie.

Genesis 1:6
And God seide, The firmament be maad in the myddis of watris, and departe watris fro watris.

Genesis 1:8
And God clepide the firmament, heuene. And the euentid and morwetid was maad, the secounde dai.

Genesis 1:9
Forsothe God seide, The watris, that ben vndur heuene, be gaderid in to o place, and a drie place appere; and it was doon so.

Genesis 1:11
and seide, The erthe brynge forth greene eerbe and makynge seed, and appil tre makynge fruyt bi his kynde, whos seed be in it silf on erthe; and it was doon so.

Genesis 1:28
And God blesside hem, and seide, Encreesse ye, and be ye multiplied, and fille ye the erthe, and make ye it suget, and be ye lordis to fischis of the see, and to volatilis of heuene, and to alle lyuynge beestis that ben moued on erthe.

Genesis 1:29
And God seide, Lo! Y haue youe to you ech eerbe berynge seed on erthe, and alle trees that han in hem silf the seed of her kynde, that tho be in to mete to you;

Job 26:7
Which God stretchith forth the north on voide thing, and hangith the erthe on nouyt.

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.