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Ester 1:3

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   Food;   Persia;   Shushan (Susa);   Thompson Chain Reference - Persia;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Diet of the Jews, the;   Medo-Persian Kingdom;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   Feasts;   Shushan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Media;   Persia;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Power;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Media;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ahasuerus;   Esther;   Shethar;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joakim;   Nethinim;   Zaraias;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Medes, Media ;   Prince, Princess;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ahasuerus;   Medes;   Vashti;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ahasue'rus;   Meals;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esther, Book of;   Medes;   Noble;   Persia;   Prince;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ahasuerus;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Banquets;   Esdras, Books of;   Lilith;   Media;   Persia;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 6;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
pada tahun yang ketiga dari pada kerajaannya, diperbuat baginda suatu perjamuan akan segala penghulu dan pegawainya, segala orang besar-besar di Farsi dan Medi, segala khalifat dan penghulu negeri-negeri, di hadapan hadiratnya.

Contextual Overview

1 It came to passe that in the dayes of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus whiche raigned from India vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundred and twentie and seuen prouinces) 2 Euen in those dayes when the king Ahasuerus sate on his seate royall, which was in Susan the chiefe citie: 3 In the third yere of his raigne, he made a feast vnto all his princes & seruauntes: and the mightie men of Persia and Media, the captaynes also and rulers of his countreys were before hym. 4 And he shewed the richesse and glorie of his kingdome, and the glorious worship of his greatnesse many dayes long, [euen] an hundred and fourescore dayes. 5 And when these dayes were expired, the king made a feast vnto al the people that were in Susan the chiefe citie, both vnto great & small, seuen dayes long, in the court of the garden by the kinges palace. 6 Where there hanged white, greene, and yelowe clothes, fastened with cordes of fine silke and purple, in siluer ringes, vpon pillers of marble stones: The benches also were of golde and siluer made vpon a pauement of greene, white, yelowe, and blacke marble. 7 And they dranke in vessels of gold, and chaunged vessel after vessel, and royal wine in aboundaunce, according to the power of the king. 8 And the drinking was by an order, none might compell: for so the king had appoynted to all the officers of his house, that they shoulde do according to euery mans pleasure. 9 And the queene Uasthi made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

am 3542, bc 462

he made: Esther 2:18, Genesis 40:20, 1 Kings 3:15, Daniel 5:1, Mark 6:21

of Persia: Esther 1:14, Ezra 1:2, Isaiah 21:2, Jeremiah 51:11, Daniel 5:28, Daniel 8:20

the nobles: Daniel 3:2, Daniel 3:3, Daniel 6:1, Daniel 6:6, Daniel 6:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:8 - feast 1 Samuel 25:36 - a feast 2 Samuel 3:20 - David Ezra 2:1 - the children Esther 3:7 - in the twelfth Jeremiah 51:28 - the kings Daniel 8:3 - one Luke 7:25 - are in 1 John 2:16 - and the pride

Cross-References

Job 36:30
Behold, he doth stretch his light vpon it, and couereth the bottome of the sea.
Job 38:19
Then shewe me the way where light dwelleth, & where is the place of darkenesse?
Psalms 33:6
By the worde of God are the heauens made: and all the hoastes of them by the breath of his mouth.
Psalms 33:9
For he spake and it was: he commauded, and it was brought to passe.
Psalms 97:11
There is sowen a lyght for the ryghteous: and gladnesse for such as be vpryght of heart.
Psalms 104:2
Who is decked with light as it were with a garment: spreadyng out the heauens like a curtayne.
Psalms 118:27
It is the Lord God who hath geuen vs lyght: bynde a sacrifice with cordes vnto the hornes of the aulter.
Psalms 148:5
Euen they shoulde prayse the name of God: for he commaunded, and they were created.
Isaiah 45:7
It is I that created light and darknesse, I make peace and trouble: yea euen I the Lorde do all these thinges.
Isaiah 60:19
The sunne shall neuer be thy day light, and the light of the moone shall neuer shine vnto thee: but the Lorde him selfe shalbe thyne euerlasting light, and thy God shalbe thy glory.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes, and his servants,.... The nobles and officers in his court; on what account this was cannot be said with certainty, whether the first day of it was his birthday, or the day of his coming to the throne, on which day Xerxes used to make a feast annually, as Herodotus relates f:

the power of Persia and Media; the mighty men therein, the potentates thereof; or the "army", the principal officers of it:

the nobles and princes of the provinces being with him. The first word Aben Ezra declares his ignorance of, whether it is Hebrew or Persian; Jarchi interprets it governors; and the persons intended by both seem to be the deputy governors of the one hundred and twenty seven provinces who were present at this feast. Xerxes, having reduced Egypt, meditated a war with Greece, to which he was pressed by Mardonius, a relation of his; upon which he summoned the chief men of his kingdom, to have their advice about it g, which perhaps was taken at this time; for it was in the third year of his reign he resolved upon the war, and began to make preparations for it; and it was usual, at banquets and feasts, that the Persians debated their most important affairs h.

f lb. (Herodot.) Calliope, sive, l. 9. c. 109. g Ib. l. 7. c. 8. h lb. Clio, sive, l. 1. c. 133.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

In the third year - In this year, 483 B.C., Xerxes assembled the governors of provinces at Susa, in connection with his contemplated expedition against Greece.

The nobles - literally, “the first men.” The Hebrew word used is one adopted from the Persian.


 
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