4And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.
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But when Herod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and pleased Herod.
So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.
And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-20)How God put down one that was high and mighty from her seat we read in the chapter before, and are now to be told how he exalted one of low degree, as the virgin Mary observes in her song (Luke 1:52) and Hannah before her, 1 Sam. 2:4-8. Vashti being humbled for her height, Esther is advanced for her humility. Observe, I. The extravagant course that was taken to please the king with another wife in…
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