Esther 1:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Esther 2:4
And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
Genesis 41:37
And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
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.

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Commentary

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…