Trouvé 2241 Résultats pour: King Ahasuerus
He asked them, "According to law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti for disobeying the king's order issued through the eunuchs?" (Esther 1, 15)
In the presence of the king and nobles, Memucan replied, "It is not the king alone that Queen Vashti has wronged but all the nobles and the whole populace in the provinces of King Ahasuerus. (Esther 1, 16)
All the women will soon know what she did, and so they will despise their husbands and say: 'King Ahasuerus ordered his wife to be brought before him but she refused.' (Esther 1, 17)
If it pleases the king, therefore, let an irrevocable royal decree be issued and included among the laws of Persia and Media, that Vashti is never again to come into the presence of King Ahasuerus, and that the king is authorized to give her royal position to someone else more worthy than she. (Esther 1, 19)
When this decree of the king is proclaimed throughout his vast kingdom, all wives will honor their husbands, from the least to the greatest." (Esther 1, 20)
This proposal pleased the king and his officials; so the king acted on Memucan's advice. (Esther 1, 21)
Later when his anger had cooled, King Ahasuerus remembered Vashti's disobedience and his decree against her. (Esther 2, 1)
The king's courtiers proposed, "Let beautiful young girls be chosen for the king. (Esther 2, 2)
Then let the girl who pleases the king take Vashti's place." The king was pleased with the suggestion and he acted on it. (Esther 2, 4)
who had been exiled from Jerusalem among the captives taken away with King Jeconiah of Judah by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar. (Esther 2, 6)
In compliance with the king's edict, a great number of young girls were brought to Susa and entrusted to Hegai. Esther was among them. (Esther 2, 8)
Esther pleased the custodian of women and won his favor. He not only promptly provided her with cosmetics and good food but assigned to her seven special maids from the king's household and transferred her and her maids into the best place in the harem. (Esther 2, 9)