Esther 1:20 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁰ And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ And when the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ So when the king's decree is made and proclaimed throughout all his kingdom, extensive as it is, all wives will give honor to their husbands, high and low.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give to their husbands honor, both to great and small.

Common English Bible

²⁰ When the order becomes public through the whole empire, vast as it is, all women will treat their husbands properly. The rule should touch everyone, whether from an important family or not.”

Esther 1:20 Krydshenvisninger

Esther 1:21

And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:

Esther 2:1

After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.

Ephesians 5:22

Wives, be in subjection unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord.

Ephesians 5:33

Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Deuteronomy 17:13

And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

Deuteronomy 21:21

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Colossians 3:18

Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.