Esther 1:15
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
What shall we do unto the Queen Vashti, according to law,.... The king desired to know what law was provided in such a case as her's, and what to be done according to it:
because she hath not…
We have here a damp to all the mirth of Ahasuerus's feast; it ended in heaviness, not as Job's children's feast by a wind from the wilderness, not as Belshazzar's by a hand-writing on the wall, but by…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law Heb. According to law what is there to do unto the queen Vashti?thus giving the question a slightly more judicial air, as though the king were…