Esther 1:9

Contemporary English Version

While the men were enjoying themselves, Queen Vashti gave the women a big dinner inside the royal palace.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women of King Ahasuerus’s palace.

Hebrew Names Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Achashverosh.

King James Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

English Standard Version
Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Century Version
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

New English Translation
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in King Ahasuerus' royal palace.

Amplified Bible
Queen Vashti also held a [separate] banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

New American Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

World English Bible
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The Queene Vashti made a feast also for the women in the royall house of King Ahashuerosh.

Legacy Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also held a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Berean Standard Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

Complete Jewish Bible
Also Vashti the queen gave a banquet for the women in the royal house belonging to King Achashverosh.

Darby Translation
Also the queen Vashti made a feast for the women of the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Easy-to-Read Version
Queen Vashti also gave a party for the women in the king's palace.

George Lamsa Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a great feast for all the women in the royal house which belonged to King Akhshirash.

Good News Translation
Meanwhile, inside the royal palace Queen Vashti was giving a banquet for the women.

Lexham English Bible
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Literal Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a banquet for the women in the royal house which King Ahasuerus owned .

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the quene Vasthi made a feast also for the wemen in the palace of Ahasuerus.

American Standard Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Bible in Basic English
And Vashti the queen gave a feast for the women in the house of King Ahasuerus.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the queene Uasthi made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

King James Version (1611)
Also Uasthi the Queene made a feast for the women, in the royall house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Also Astin the queen made a banquet for the women in the palace where king Artaxerxes dwelt.

English Revised Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also Vasthi, the queen, made a feeste of wymmen in the paleis, where kyng Assuerus was wont to dwelle.

Update Bible Version
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.

Webster's Bible Translation
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus.

New King James Version
Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Living Translation
At the same time, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.

New Life Bible
Queen Vashti also gave a special supper for the women in the beautiful house that belonged to King Ahasuerus.

New Revised Standard
Furthermore, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the palace of King Ahasuerus.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Also Vashti the queen, made a banquet for the women, - in the royal house which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

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

Revised Standard Version
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasu-e'rus.

Young's Literal Translation
Also Vashti the queen hath made a banquet for women, in the royal house that the king Ahasuerus hath.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.

Contextual Overview

¹King Xerxes of Persia lived in his capital city of Susa and ruled one hundred twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. ³ During the third year of his rule, Xerxes gave a big dinner for all his officials and officers. The governors and leaders of the provinces were also invited, and even the commanders of the Persian and Median armies came. ⁴ For one hundred eighty days he showed off his wealth and spent a lot of money to impress his guests with the greatness of his kingdom. ⁵ King Xerxes soon gave another dinner and invited everyone in the city of Susa, no matter who they were. The eating and drinking lasted seven days in the beautiful palace gardens. ⁶ The area was decorated with blue and white cotton curtains tied back with purple linen cords that ran through silver rings fastened to marble columns. Couches of gold and silver rested on pavement that had all kinds of designs made from costly bright-colored stones and marble and mother-of-pearl. ⁷ The guests drank from gold cups, and each cup had a different design. The king was generous ⁸ and said to them, "Drink all you want!" Then he told his servants, "Keep their cups full." ⁹ While the men were enjoying themselves, Queen Vashti gave the women a big dinner inside the royal palace.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the queen: Esther 5:4, Esther 5:8

Cross-References

Genesis 1:1
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:2
The earth was barren, with no form of life; it was under a roaring ocean covered with darkness. But the Spirit of God was moving over the water.

Genesis 1:5
and named the light "Day" and the darkness "Night." Evening came and then morning—that was the first day.

Genesis 1:6

The Second Day

God said, "I command a dome to separate the water above it from the water below it."

Genesis 1:8
and named it "Sky." Evening came and then morning—that was the second day.

Genesis 1:9

The Third Day

God said, "I command the water under the sky to come together in one place, so there will be dry ground." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:11
God said, "I command the earth to produce all kinds of plants, including fruit trees and grain." And that's what happened.

Genesis 1:28
God gave them his blessing and said: Have a lot of children! Fill the earth with people and bring it under your control. Rule over the fish in the ocean, the birds in the sky, and every animal on the earth.

Genesis 1:29
I have provided all kinds of fruit and grain for you to eat.

Job 26:7
who hung the northern sky and suspended the earth on empty space.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women.... For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern nations, to admit of women to their festivals m, but they feasted by themselves. Who Vashti was is not known with any certainty. Bishop Usher, who takes Ahasuerus to be Darius Hystaspis, thinks Vashti was Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus, whom he married. The Targumist says, she was the daughter of Evilmerodach, the son of Nebuchadnezzar. Her name seems to be the same with Vesta, a deity worshipped by the Persians, as Xenophon n, and signifies vehement fire, which was in great veneration with them; and therefore this queen is most likely to be of Persian original: she kept her feast

in the royal house which belonged to Ahasuerus; her guests not being so many, there was room enough in the king's palace for them, and where it was more decent for them to be than in the open air in the garden, and exposed to the sight of men.

m Justin c Trogo, l. 41. c. 3. n Cyropaedia, l. 1. c. 23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Vashti - If Ahasuerus is Xerxes, Vashti would be Amestris, whom the Greeks regarded as the only legitimate wife of that monarch, and who was certainly married to him before he ascended the throne. The name may be explained either as a corruption of Amestris, or as a title, vahishta, (Sanskrit: vasishtha, the superlative of vasu, “sweet”); and it may be supposed that the disgrace recorded (Esther 1:19-21, see the note) was only temporary; Amestris in the later part of Xerxes’ reign recovering her former dignity.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 1:9. Also Vashti the queen — [Persian] Vashti is a mere Persian word; and signifies a beautiful or excellent woman.

Made a feast for the women — The king, having subdued all his enemies, left no competitor for the kingdom; and being thus quietly and firmly seated on the throne, made this a time of general festivity. As the women of the East never mingle with the men in public, Vashti made a feast for the Persian ladies by themselves; and while the men were in the court of the garden, the women were in the royal house.