Esther 1:17

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For the queen’s action will become public knowledge to all the women and cause them to despise their husbands and say, “King Ahasuerus ordered Queen Vashti brought before him, but she did not come.”

Cross References

Ephesians 5:33

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David,  Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

Ezra 4:6

At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus,  the people who were already in the land  wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.

Esther 1:16

Memucan said in the presence of the king and his officials, ‘Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the officials and the peoples who are in every one of King Ahasuerus’s provinces.

Esther 1:18

Before this day is over, the noble women of Persia and Media who hear about the queen’s act will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in more contempt and fury.