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Ester 1:5

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Feasts;   House;   Seven;   Shushan (Susa);   Thompson Chain Reference - Feasts;   Luxury;   Pleasure, Worldly;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Social Functions;   Social Life;   Suppers;   Worldly;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Entertainments;   Houses;   Medo-Persian Kingdom;   Palaces;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Chamberlain;   Feasts;   Shushan;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Susa (shushan);   Easton Bible Dictionary - Gardens;   Palace;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Shushan;   Week;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Esther;   Garden;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Meals;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Prince, Princess;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Vashti;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Banquet;   Esther, Book of;   Garden;   Shushan;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Esther, Apocryphal Book of;   ḥanina B. 'Agul;   Shushan;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 6;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Setelah genaplah segala hari itu maka diperbuat baginda suatu perjamuan pula akan segala orang yang terdapat di dalam kota Susan, baik besar baik kecil, tujuh hari lamanya, di dalam penghadapan taman istana baginda.

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

present: Heb. found

seven days: 2 Chronicles 7:8, 2 Chronicles 7:9, 2 Chronicles 30:21-25

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 23:2 - both small and great Mark 6:39 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.
Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.
Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.
Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
Genesis 8:22
Yet therefore shall not sowyng tyme and haruest, colde and heate, sommer and wynter, day and nyght, ceasse all the dayes of the earth.
Psalms 19:2
A day occasioneth talke therof vnto a day: and a night teacheth knoweledge vnto a nyght.
Psalms 74:16
The day is thine, & the nyght is thine: thou hast prepared the light & the sunne.
Psalms 104:20
Thou makest darknes and it is night: wherein all the beastes of the forrest do go abrode.
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.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And when these days were ended,.... The one hundred and eighty, in which the nobles, princes, and great men of the kingdom were feasted:

the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small; of every age, rank, state and condition of life; these were the common people, whether inhabitants of the city or country people there on business, whether natives or foreigners; according to the Targum, there were Israelites there, but not Mordecai and his family; yea, it is said in the Midrash n, that they were all Jews, and that their number was 18,500; but this is not probable; it is very likely there were some Jews among them, as there were many in the army of Xerxes, when he made his expedition into Greece, according to the poet Choerilus o; which is not to be wondered at, since there were so many of them in his dominions, and they men of valour and fidelity, and to whose nation he was so kind and favourable: and this feast was kept

seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace; which no doubt was very large, and sufficient to hold such a number as was assembled together on this occasion, when there was not room enough for them in the palace. There is in history an account of a Persian king that supped with 15,000 men, and in the supper spent forty talents p.

n Midrash Esther, fol. 94. 1. o Apud Joseph. contr. Apion. l. 1. c. 22. p Ctesias & Dinon in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Feasts on this extensive scale were not unusual in the East. Cyrus is said on one occasion to have feasted “all the Persians.” Even ordinarily, the later Persian monarchs entertained 15,000 persons at their table.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:5. A feast unto all the people — The first was a feast for the nobles in general; this, for the people of the city at large.

In the court of the garden — As the company was very numerous that was to be received, no apartments in the palace could be capable of containing them; therefore the court of the garden was chosen.


 
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