Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
To bring Vashti the queen - This command, though contrary to Persian customs, is not out of harmony with the character of Xerxes; and is evidently related as something strange and unusual. Otherwise, the queen would not have refused to come.
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Esther 1:11:
Daniel 5:2-3
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