Esther 1:15
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
Esther 1:15 in other translations
| BSB | “According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?” |
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| WEB | “What shall we do to Queen Vashti according to law, because she has not done the bidding of the King Ahasuerus by the eunuchs?” |
| ASV | What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not done the bidding of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? |
| YLT | ‘According to law, what--to do with queen Vashti, because that she hath not done the saying of the king Ahasuerus by the hand of the eunuchs?' |
| DARBY | What shall be done to the queen Vashti according to law, because she has not performed the word of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? |
| BBE | What is to be done by law to Vashti the queen, because she has not done what King Ahasuerus, by his servants, gave her orders to do? |
| Webster | What shall we do to the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? |
What does Esther 1:15 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Esther 1:13-19
13-19. Then the king said to the wise men--These were probably the magi, without whose advice as to the proper time of doing a thing the Persian kings never did take any step whatever; and the persons named in Es 1:14 were the "seven counsellors" (compare Ezr 7:14) who formed the state ministry. The combined wisdom of all, it seems, was enlisted to consult with the king what course should be taken after so…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Esther 1:10-22
Ahasuerus's feast ended in heaviness, by his own folly. Seasons of peculiar festivity often end in vexation. Superiors should be careful not to command what may reasonably be disobeyed. But when wine is in, men's reason departs from them. He that had rule over 127 provinces, had no rule over his own spirit. But whether the passion or the policy of the king was served by this decree, God's providence made way for…
Esther 1:15 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Esther 1:15
- Esther 6:6
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
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Context
- Esther 1:14
And the next unto him was Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, which saw the king’s face, and which sat the first in the kingdom;)
- Esther 1:15
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
- Esther 1:16
And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.
Esther 1:15 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Qué se había de hacer según la ley con la reina Vasthi, por cuanto no había cumplido la orden del rey Assuero, enviada por mano de los eunucos. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que faut-il faire à la reine Vasthi, selon la loi, pour n’avoir pas fait ce que le roi Assuérus a commandé par l’intermédiaire des eunuques? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Was ist nach dem Gesetz mit der Königin Vasti zu tun, dafür daß sie das Wort des Königs Ahasveros durch die Kämmerer nicht befolgt hat? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | cui sententiæ Vasthi regina subjaceret, quæ Assueri regis imperium, quod per eunuchos mandaverat, facere noluisset. |