Ester 1:9

9 La reina Vasti también hizo un banquete para las mujeres en el palacio que pertenecía al rey Asuero.

Ester 1:9 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 1:9

Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women
&c.] For it was not customary with the Persians, nor other eastern nations, to admit of women to their festivals ^F13, 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 Justin c Trogo, l. 41. c. 3.
F14 Cyropaedia, l. 1. c. 23.

Ester 1:9 In-Context

7 Las bebidas se servían en vasijas de oro de diferentes formas, y el vino real abundaba conforme a la liberalidad del rey.

8 Y se bebía conforme a la ley, no había obligación, porque el rey así había dado órdenes a todos los oficiales de su casa para que hicieran conforme a los deseos de cada persona.

9 La reina Vasti también hizo un banquete para las mujeres en el palacio que pertenecía al rey Asuero.

10 Al séptimo día, cuando el corazón del rey estaba alegre por el vino, él ordenó a Mehumán, a Bizta, a Harbona, a Bigta, a Abagta, a Zetar y a Carcas, los siete eunucos que servían en la presencia del rey Asuero,

11 que trajeran a la reina Vasti a la presencia del rey con su corona real, para mostrar al pueblo y a los príncipes su belleza, porque era muy hermosa.