18Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king's princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
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Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,
And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
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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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