Est 1:1-2 | TSK | STEP | Ahasuerus makes royal feasts. Vashti, sent for, refuses to come. Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and makes the decree of men's sovereignty. Ahasuerus.Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the Septuagint and Josephus. See note on Ezr 6:14. from India. an hundred.

Esther 1:1-2

1 Ahasuerus makes royal feasts.

10 Vashti, sent for, refuses to come.

13 Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and makes the decree of men's sovereignty.

Ahasuerus.Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the Septuagint and Josephus. See note on Ezr 6:14.

Ezr 4:6; Da 9:1

from India.

8:9; Isa 18:1; 37:9

an hundred.

Da 6:1

sat.

2Sa 7:1; 1Ki 1:46; Da 4:4

Shushan.

2:3; 3:15; 4:16; 9:12-15; Ne 1:1; Da 8:2