Esther 1:16-18
1599 Geneva Bible
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.
18 So shall the [c]Princesses of Persia and Media this day say unto all the King’s Princes, when they hear of the act of the Queen: thus shall there be much despitefulness and wrath.
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- Esther 1:16 By her disobedience she hath given an example to all women to do the like to their husbands.
- Esther 1:17 That is, her disobedience.
- Esther 1:18 Meaning, that they would take first occasion thereof to do the like, and that the rest of women would by continuance do the same.
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