Esther 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ to bring Queen Vashti before the king wearing the royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the officials her beauty, for she was fair to behold.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ To bring Queen Vashti before the king, with her royal crown, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was fair to behold.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown royal, to show the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was fair to look on.

Common English Bible

¹¹ They were to bring Queen Vashti before him wearing the royal crown. She was gorgeous, and he wanted to show off her beauty both to the general public and to his important guests.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ When Mordecai had seen this, and he arose from bed, he was considering what God might want to do, and he kept it fixed in his soul, desiring to know what the dream might signify.

English Standard Version 2016

¹¹ to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her royal crown, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.

Esther 1:11 Cross References

2 Samuel 14:25

Now in all Israel there was no one to be praised so much for his beauty as Absalom; from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head there was no blemish in him.

Esther 1:12

But Queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s command conveyed by the eunuchs. At this the king was enraged, and his anger burned within him.

Esther 2:17

the king loved Esther more than all the other women; of all the virgins she won his favor and devotion, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Esther 6:8

let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and a horse that the king has ridden, with a royal crown on its head.

Proverbs 16:9

The human mind plans the way, but the Lord directs the steps.

Proverbs 31:30

Charm is deceitful and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.

1 Samuel 25:3

Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife was Abigail. The woman was clever and beautiful, but the man was surly and mean; he was a Calebite.