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and he had great store of gold and silver from the royal treasury. (Judith 2, 10)
All should have proof of his royal splendour, of the power and pride that were his; and long they kept holiday, for a hundred and eighty days together. (Esther 1, 4)
And when the festivity drew to an end, he would entertain all the folk of Susan, high and low; for a whole week a banquet was spread for them at the gates of his garden, amid trees planted by art at the royal bidding. (Esther 1, 5)
They were to bring queen Vasthi into the king’s presence, wearing the royal crown, so that he might display her person to the rabble as well as to his lords; hers was no common beauty. (Esther 1, 11)
Vain was the royal summons the chamberlains brought her; she would not come. Whereupon the king broke out into a great passion of rage, (Esther 1, 12)
So please thee, let an edict go out in thy name, by the laws of Persia and Media irrevocable, forbidding Vasthi ever to come into the royal presence again. Let the crown pass to some head worthier than hers. (Esther 1, 19)
And she, who most of all wins the royal favour, shall be queen instead of Vasthi. The king liked this counsel well, and gave orders that it should be put into effect. (Esther 2, 4)
Ever the bride was given what adornment she would, and so, in finery of her own choosing, passed out from the maidens’ lodging to the royal bed-chamber. (Esther 2, 13)
Each morning, the bride of yesternight was escorted to a new home, where the chamberlain Susagazi, master of the royal concubines, had charge of her, nor might she ever find her way back to the king, save at his will and on his express summons. (Esther 2, 14)
It was in Tebeth, the tenth month, in the seventh year of Assuerus’ reign, that she was escorted to the royal bed-chamber.✻ (Esther 2, 16)
More than all those others she won the king’s heart, more than all she enjoyed his loving favour; on her head he set the old royal crown, and made her his queen in place of Vasthi. (Esther 2, 17)
And it was while Mardochaeus haunted the palace gates that two of the royal chamberlains, Bagathan and Thares, door-keepers both at the palace entry, grew disaffected, and would have made a murderous attack on the king’s person. (Esther 2, 21)
