15 What shall we do unto the Queen Vashti according to the law, because she did not according to the word of the King Ahasuerus by the commission of the eunuchs?

16 Then Memucan answered before the king and the Princes, The Queen Vashti hath not only done [a]evil against the King, but against all the Princes, and against all the people that are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.

17 For the [b]act of the Queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their own eyes, and shall say, The King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the Queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:16 By her disobedience she hath given an example to all women to do the like to their husbands.
  2. Esther 1:17 That is, her disobedience.

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