Esther 1:12
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.
KJV
Quæ renuit, et ad regis imperium quod per eunuchos mandaverat, venire contempsit. Unde iratus rex, et nimio furore succensus,
Vulgate
καὶ οὐκ εἰσήκουσεν αὐτοῦ Ἀστὶν ἡ βασίλισσα ἐλθεῖν μετὰ τῶν εὐνούχων· καὶ ἐλυπήθη ὁ βασιλεὺς καὶ ὠργίσθη,
LXX
But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.
ASV
וַ/תְּמָאֵ֞ן הַ/מַּלְכָּ֣ה וַשְׁתִּ֗י לָ/בוֹא֙ בִּ/דְבַ֣ר הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ אֲשֶׁ֖ר בְּ/יַ֣ד הַ/סָּרִיסִ֑ים וַ/יִּקְצֹ֤ף הַ/מֶּ֨לֶךְ֙ מְאֹ֔ד וַ/חֲמָת֖/וֹ בָּעֲרָ֥ה בֽ/וֹ
Hebrew
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In this verse
In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Pet 3:1 — Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;
- Esth 2:1 — 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.
- Esth 4:4 — So Esther’s maids and her chamberlains came and told it her. Then was the queen exceedingly grieved; and she sent raiment to clothe Mordecai, and to take away his sackcloth from him: but he received i
- Esth 7:7 — And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined a
- Prov 19:12 — The king’s wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.
- Prov 20:2 — The fear of a king is as the roaring of a lion: whoso provoketh him to anger sinneth against his own soul.