Geneva Bible Notes: Esther 1

Esther 1:1 ^b Daniel {chap. 6,1} maketh mencion but of six score, leauing out the nomber that is vnperfit, as the Scripture in diuers places vseth.

Esther 1:1 ^a Called also Darius, who was now the souereing Monarch, & had the gouernement of the Medes, Persians and Chaldeans. some thinke he was Darius Hystaspis sonne, called also Artaxerxes.

Esther 1:1 ^! King Ahashuerosh maketh a royal feast.

Esther 1:2 ^c That is, had rest, and quietnes.

Esther 1:6 ^d Which they vsed in those countreis in stead of tables.

Esther 1:7 ^e As was beseming for so magnifical a King.

Esther 1:8 ^f None might be compelled to drinke more then it pleased him.

Esther 1:10 ^! Wherunto the Quene Vashiti wil not come.

Esther 1:10 ^g Which was the last day of the feast that the King made for the people as {verse 5}

Esther 1:12 ^/ Ebr. which was in the hand of the enauches.

Esther 1:13 ^h That had experience of things, as thes had learned by diligent marking in continuance of time.

Esther 1:14 ⁱ Which were his chief counselers, that might haue alwaies accesse to him.

Esther 1:16 ^k By her disobedience she hathe giuen an example to all women to do the like to their housbands.

Esther 1:17 ^l That is, her disobedience.

Esther 1:18 ^m Meaning, that thei wolde take first occasion hereof to do the like, & that the rest of women wolde by continuance do the same.

Esther 1:19 ^! For which cause she is diuorced.

Esther 1:19 ⁿ Let her be diuorced & another made Quene.

Esther 1:20 ^! The Kings decree touching the preeminence of man.

Esther 1:20 ^o For he had vnder him an hundreth twentie and seuen countreis.

Esther 1:22 ^p That is, that the wife shulde be subject to the housband and at his commandement.