Esther 1:12

King Xerxes' Banquet

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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.

To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair to look on.

Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment: