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Ester 1:7

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7 Y daban a beber en vasos de oro (los vasos eran diferentes unos de otros), y mucho vino real, conforme a la facultad del rey.

Ester 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.


FOOTNOTES:

F4 Ctesias in Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 11.
F5 Geograph. l. 15. p. 505.
F6 Universal History, vol. 5. p. 85.
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Ester 1:7 In-Context

5 Y cumplidos estos dĂ­as, hizo el rey banquete por siete dĂ­as en el patio del huerto del palacio real a todo el pueblo, desde el mayor hasta el menor que se hallĂł en Susa capital del reino.
6 El pabellĂłn era de blanco, verde, y cĂĄrdeno, tendido sobre cuerdas de lino y pĂșrpura en anillos de plata y columnas de mĂĄrmol; los reclinatorios de oro y de plata, sobre losado de pĂłrfido y de mĂĄrmol, y de alabastro y de cĂĄrdeno.
7 Y daban a beber en vasos de oro (los vasos eran diferentes unos de otros), y mucho vino real, conforme a la facultad del rey.
8 Y la bebida fue segĂșn esta ley: Que nadie se constriñese; porque asĂ­ lo habĂ­a mandado el rey a todos los mayordomos de su casa; que se hiciese segĂșn la voluntad de cada uno.
9 Asimismo la reina Vasti hizo banquete de mujeres, en la casa real del rey Asuero.
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