Ester 1:7

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka minumanpun diperidarkan oranglah dalam piala keemasan, dan piala itu tiap-tiap kali ditukar dengan piala yang lain, maka berkelimpahanlah air anggur kerajaan, hanya baginda juga yang dapat mengaruniakan yang demikian.

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

vessels of gold: 1 Kings 10:21, 2 Chronicles 9:20, Daniel 5:2-4

royal wine: Heb. wine of the kingdom

state of the king: Heb. hand of the king.

Reciprocal: Judges 14:10 - made there 2 Kings 7:15 - vessels

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
And God called the firmament the heauen: and the euenyng and the mornyng were the seconde day.

Genesis 1:9
And God saide: let the waters vnder the heauen be gathered together into one place, and let the drye lande appeare: and it was so.

Genesis 1:11
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth [both] budde and hearbe apt to seede, and fruitfull trees yeeldyng fruite after his kynde, which hath seede in it selfe vpon the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:15
And let them be for lyghtes in the firmament of the heauen, that they maye geue light vpo the earth: and it was so.

Genesis 1:24
And God sayde: let the earth bryng foorth lyuyng creature after his kynde, cattell, worme, and beastes of the earth after his kynde: and it was so.

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God sayde vnto them: be fruitefull, & multiplie, and replenishe the earth, & subdue it, and haue dominion of the fisshe of the sea, and foule of the ayre, & of euery lyuing thing that moueth vpon the earth.

Genesis 1:29
And God sayde: beholde, I haue geuen you euery hearbe bearing seede, which is in the vpper face of all ye earth, and euery tree in the which is the fruite of a tree bearing seede, [that] they may be meate vnto you:

Job 26:8
He byndeth the water in his cloudes, & the cloude is not broken vnder them.

Psalms 104:10
Who also causeth the springes which runne betweene the hilles: to flowe into the riuers.

Psalms 148:4
Prayse ye hym all ye heauens: and ye waters that be aboue the heauens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They gave them drink in vessels of gold, the vessels being divers one from another,.... In the pattern and workmanship of them, though of the same metal, which diversity made the festival the more grand; earthen cups, with the Persians, were reckoned very mean; when a king would disgrace a man, he obliged him to use earthen cups d. The Targum represents these vessels to be the golden vessels of the temple at Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar carried away; which could not be, since they had been delivered by Cyrus to Zerubbabel, Ezra 1:7,

and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king; such as the king was able to give, the best he had, and that in great plenty; the wine the kings of Persia used to drink, as Strabo e relates, was Chalybonian wine, or wine of Helbon, as it is called, Ezekiel 27:18,

Ezekiel 27:18- :, but by the wine of the kingdom, as it may be rendered, is meant wine of the country; the wine of Schiras is reckoned the best in Persia f.

d Ctesias in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 11. e Geograph. l. 15. p. 505. f Universal History, vol. 5. p. 85.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:7. Vessels being diverse — They had different services of plate.