the Week of Proper 19 / Ordinary 24
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Ester 1:19
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Si parece bien al rey, salga mandamiento real delante de él, y escríbase entre las leyes de Persia y de Media, y no sea traspasado: Que no venga más Vasthi delante del rey Assuero: y dé el rey su reino á su compañera que sea mejor que ella.
Si parece bien al rey, salga mandamiento real delante de él, y escríbase entre las leyes de Persia y de Media, y no sea traspasado: Que no venga más Vasti delante del rey Asuero: y dé el rey su reino a su compañera que sea mejor que ella.
Si parece bien al rey, salga mandamiento real delante de él, y se escriba entre las leyes de Persia y de Media, y no sea traspasado: Que no venga más Vasti delante del rey Asuero; y dé el rey su reino a su compañera que sea mejor que ella.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
it please the king: Heb. it be good with the king, Esther 1:21, Esther 3:9, Esther 8:5
from him: Heb. from before him
it be not altered: Heb. it pass not away, Esther 8:8, Daniel 6:8-15, Daniel 6:17, Let it be inserted among the permanent laws, and be made a part of the constitution of the empire. The Persians seem to have affected such a degree of wisdom in the construction of their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never be repealed; and this formed the ground of the saying, "The laws of the Medes and Persians that change not."
another: Heb. her companion
that is better: 1 Samuel 15:28, 1 Kings 3:28
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:32 - more righteous Nehemiah 2:5 - If it please Esther 4:11 - but I Daniel 6:12 - The thing
Gill's Notes on the Bible
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him,.... Not only a proclamation made, but a law enacted and published by royal authority:
and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and Medes that it be not altered; for so it was, that when a law was made, and signed, and sealed, and registered among the laws of the kingdom, it remained unalterable, Daniel 6:8, this precaution Memucan took for his own safety; for had the king acted upon his advice, without passing it into a law in such form, he might change his mind, and recall Vashti, who would not fail of venting her wrath upon the counsellor, and so he be in danger of losing his life for it:
that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus; but be entirely divorced, never to be received any more:
and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she; or "to her companions" z; that was with her in the house of the women in the seraglio; one that was fairer, as the Targum, or of a better disposition than her; let her be made queen, and enjoy all the honour, and dignity, and marks of royalty Vashti did; her throne, her crown, and royal apparel, as it is interpreted in an ancient Jewish writing a.
z לרעותה "sodali ejus", Montanus; "sociae ejus", Tigurine version, Drusius, Rambachius. a Tikkune Zohar, correct. 21. fol. 59. 2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
That it be not altered - Compare the margin reference. This was the theory. Practically, the monarch, if he chose, could always dispense with the law. It was therefore quite within his power to restore Vashti to her queenly dignity notwithstanding the present decree, if he so pleased.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Esther 1:19. That it be not altered — Let it be inserted among the permanent laws, and made a part of the constitution of the empire. Perhaps the Persians affected such a degree of wisdom in the construction of their laws, that they never could be amended, and should never be repeated. And this we may understand to be the ground of the saying, The laws of the Medes and Persians, that change not.
