12But 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.
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The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.
Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.
For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-22)We have here a damp to all the mirth of Ahasuerus’s feast; it ended in heaviness, not as Job’s children’s feast by a wind from the wilderness, not as Belshazzar’s by a hand-writing on the wall, but by is own folly. An unhappy falling out there was, at the end of the feast, between the king and queen, which broke of the feast abruptly, and sent the guests away silent and ashamed. I. It was certainl…
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