vashti Also {Vashti} the queen made a feast for the women [in] the royal house which [belonged] to king Ahasuerus. vashti To bring {Vashti} the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the people and the princes her beauty: for she [was] fair to look on. vashti 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. vashti What shall we do unto the queen {Vashti} according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains? vashti And Memucan answered before the king and the princes, {Vashti} the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that [are] in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus. vashti For [this] deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded {Vashti} the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not. vashti 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 ro yal estate unto another that is better than she. vashti After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered {Vashti}, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. vashti And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of {Vashti}. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so. vashti And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of {Vashti}. ~~~~~~