9 Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.
9 Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
9 Queen Vashti also gave a feast for the women in the palace that belonged to King Ahasuerus.
9 Meanwhile, Queen Vashti was throwing a separate party for women inside King Xerxes' royal palace.
9 Queen Vashti also made a feast for the women in the royal palace which belonged to King Ahasuerus.
9 At the same time, Queen Vashti gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Esther 1:9
Commentary on Esther 1:1-9
(Read Esther 1:1-9)
The pride of Ahasuerus's heart rising with the grandeur of his kingdom, he made an extravagant feast. This was vain glory. Better is a dinner of herbs with quietness, than this banquet of wine, with all the noise and tumult that must have attended it. But except grace prevails in the heart, self-exaltation and self-indulgence, in one form or another, will be the ruling principle. Yet none did compel; so that if any drank to excess, it was their own fault. This caution of a heathen prince, even when he would show his generosity, may shame many called Christians, who, under pretence of sending the health round, send sin round, and death with it. There is a woe to them that do so; let them read it, and tremble, Habakkuk 2:15,16.