Esther 1:15

Darby's French Translation

Que faut-il faire à la reine Vasthi, selon la loi, pour n'avoir pas fait ce que le roi Assuérus a commandé par l'intermédiaire des eunuques?

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Que doit-on faire, dit-il, selon les lois, à la reine Vasthi, pour n'avoir point exécuté l'ordre que le roi Assuérus lui a fait donner par les eunuques?

Louis Segond (1910)
Quelle loi, dit-il, faut-il appliquer à la reine Vasthi, pour n'avoir point exécuté ce que le roi Assuérus lui a ordonné par les eunuques?

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Qu'y a-t-il à faire selon les lois à la Reine Vasti, pour n'avoir pas exécuté le commandement que le Roi Assuérus lui a envoyé faire par les Eunuques?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What shall we do: Heb. What to do, Esther 6:6

Gill's Notes on the Bible

What shall we do unto the Queen Vashti, according to law,.... The king desired to know what law was provided in such a case as her's, and what to be done according to it:

because she hath not performed the commandment of the king by the chamberlains? as this was the crime, disobedience to his commands, he would have those who had knowledge of the law consider what punishment was to be inflicted on her for it, according to former laws, usages, and customs, or as reason and justice required; and it being a festival, and they heated with wine, was no objection to a consultation on this head; for it was the manner of the Persians at festivals, and when inflamed with wine, to consult and determine about matters of the greatest moment w; yea, reckoned their counsels and decrees firmer than when made when they were sober x; so the ancient Germans y.

w Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 133. x Strabo. Geograph. l. 15. p. 505. Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier. l. 4. c. 11. & l. 5. c. 21. y Tacitus de Mor. German. c. 22.