Ester 1:9

9 Al mismo tiempo, la reina Vasti hizo un banquete para las mujeres en el palacio real del rey Jerjes.

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 copas de oro de distintos diseños, y había vino real en abundancia, lo cual reflejaba la generosidad del rey.

8 Por decreto del rey, no había límite de consumo, porque el rey había dado instrucciones a todos los empleados del palacio de que sirvieran a cada hombre cuanto quisiera.

9 Al mismo tiempo, la reina Vasti hizo un banquete para las mujeres en el palacio real del rey Jerjes.

10 Destitución de la reina Vasti
Al séptimo día de la fiesta, cuando el rey Jerjes estaba muy alegre a causa del vino, les ordenó a los siete eunucos que lo servían —Mehumán, Bizta, Harbona, Bigta, Abagta, Zetar y Carcas—

11 que le trajeran a la reina Vasti con la corona real en la cabeza. Quería que los nobles y los demás hombres contemplaran su belleza, porque era una mujer sumamente hermosa;