18 So shall the [a]Princesses of Persia and Media this day say unto all the King’s Princes, when they hear of the act of the Queen: thus shall there be much despitefulness and wrath.

19 If it please the King, let a royal decree proceed from him, and let it be written among the statutes of Persia and Media, (and let it not be transgressed) that Vashti come [b]no more before king Ahasuerus: and let the king give her royal estate unto her companion that is better than she.

20 And when the decree of the King which shall be made, shall be published throughout all his kingdom (though it be [c]great) all the women shall give their husbands honor, both great and small.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 1:18 Meaning, that they would take first occasion thereof to do the like, and that the rest of women would by continuance do the same.
  2. Esther 1:19 Let her be divorced, and another made Queen.
  3. Esther 1:20 For he had under him an hundred twenty and seven countries.

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