Vasthi

Queen Vasthi hath not only injured the king, but also all the people and princes that are in all the provinces of king Assuerus.

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To bring in queen Vasthi before the king, with the crown set upon her head, to shew her beauty to all the people and the princes: for she was exceeding beautiful.

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If it please thee, let an edict go out from thy presence, and let it be written according to the law of the Persians and of the Medes, which must not be altered, that Vasthi come in no more to the king, but another, that is better than her, be made queen in her place.

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Also Vasthi the queen made a feast for the women in the palace, where king Assuerus was used to dwell.

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And whosoever among them all shall please the king's eyes, let her be queen instead of Vasthi.

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And the king loved her more than all the women, and she had favour and kindness before him above all the women, and he set the royal crown on her head, and made her queen instead of Vasthi.

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Queen Vasthi being sent for refuseth to come: for which disobedience she is deposed.

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For this deed of the queen will go abroad to all women, so that they will despise their husbands, and will say: King Assuerus commanded that queen Vasthi should come in to him, and she would not.

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After this, when the wrath of king Assuerus was appeased, he remembered Vasthi, and what she had done and what she had suffered:

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What sentence ought to pass upon Vasthi the queen, who had refused to obey the commandment of king Assuerus, which he had sent to her by the eunuchs?

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