Esther 1:17
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.
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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771
Gill's Exposition
For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women,.... It will soon be spread all over the king's dominions, and reach the ears of the wives of all his subjects, and become their general…
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
to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes As compared with A.V. (-so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes") R.V. both improves the English, and furnishes a closer rendering of…