Yǐsītièjì 1:7

7 Yòng jīnqì mǐn cì jiǔ , qìmǐn gè yǒu bù tóng . yù jiǔ shén duō , zú xiǎn wáng de hòu yì .

Yǐsītièjì 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 1:7

They gave them drink in vessels of gold, the vessels being
divers one from another
In the pattern and workmanship of them, though of the same metal, which diversity made the festival the more grand; earthen cups, with the Persians, were reckoned very mean; when a king would disgrace a man, he obliged him to use earthen cups ^F4. The Targum represents these vessels to be the golden vessels of the temple at Jerusalem Nebuchadnezzar carried away; which could not be, since they had been delivered by Cyrus to Zerubbabel, ( Ezra 1:7-10 ) ,

and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king;
such as the king was able to give, the best he had, and that in great plenty; the wine the kings of Persia used to drink, as Strabo ^F5 relates, was Chalybonian wine, or wine of Helbon, as it is called, ( Ezekiel 27:18 ) , (See Gill on Ezekiel 27:18), but by the wine of the kingdom, as it may be rendered, is meant wine of the country; the wine of Schiras is reckoned the best in Persia ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 Ctesias in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 11.
F5 Geograph. l. 15. p. 505.
F6 Universal History, vol. 5. p. 85.

Yǐsītièjì 1:7 In-Context

5 Zhè rìzi mǎn le , yòu wèi suǒ yǒu zhù Shūshān chéng de dà xiǎorén mín , zaì yù yuán de yuànzi lǐ shè bǎi yánxí qī rì .

6 Yǒu bái sè , lù sè , lán sè de zhàng zǐ , yòng xì má shéng , zǐse shéng cóng yín huán neì jì zaì bái yù shí zhù shang . yǒu jīn yín de chuáng tà bǎi zaì hóng , bái , huáng , hēi yù shí pū de shí dì shang.

7 Yòng jīnqì mǐn cì jiǔ , qìmǐn gè yǒu bù tóng . yù jiǔ shén duō , zú xiǎn wáng de hòu yì .

8 Hē jiǔ yǒu lì , bù zhún miǎnqiǎng rén , yīn wáng fēnfu gōng lǐ de yīqiè chénzǎi , ràng rén gè suí jǐ yì .

9 Wáng hòu Wǎshítí zaì Yàhǎsuílǔ wáng de gōng neì , yĕ wèi fùnǚ shè bǎi yánxí .