Prophets & WritingsOld Testament

Vashti

Esther
When

c. 483 BC· In the text

Tied to events dated from records outside the Bible, usually within a few years. How the dates are worked out

Name meaning

uncertain — often "beautiful, excellent" · Persian

About

Queen of Persia and first wife of Xerxes. When the king, merry with wine, summoned her to display her beauty before his banquet guests, she refused. For this she was deposed and banished from his presence, and the search for a new queen began — opening the way for Esther.

Relationships
Former husbandXerxes (Ahasuerus)King who deposed her as queen
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Esther 1:9
Also Vashti the queen made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus.Esther 1:9, KJV
Esther 1:12
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.Esther 1:12, KJV
Esther 1:19
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.Esther 1:19, KJV

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