Verse 4

and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti. The thing pleased the king; and he did so.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 13:4-6 : 4 He said to him, Why, son of the king, are you thus lean from day to day? Won't you tell me? Amnon said to him, I love Tamar, my brother Absalom's sister. 5 Jonadab said to him, Lay you down on your bed, and feign yourself sick: and when your father comes to see you, tell him, Please let my sister Tamar come and give me bread to eat, and dress the food in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it from her hand. 6 So Amnon lay down, and feigned himself sick: and when the king was come to see him, Amnon said to the king, Please let her sister Tamar come, and make me a couple of cakes in my sight, that I may eat from her hand.
  • 2 Sam 16:21-23 : 21 Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's concubines, that he has left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you are abhorred of your father: then will the hands of all who are with you be strong. 22 So they spread Absalom a tent on the top of the house; and Absalom went in to his father's concubines in the sight of all Israel. 23 The counsel of Ahithophel, which he gave in those days, was as if a man inquired at the oracle of God: so was all the counsel of Ahithophel both with David and with Absalom.
  • 2 Sam 17:4 : 4 The saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • Esth 1:21 : 21 The saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did according to the word of Memucan:
  • Esth 3:9-9 : 9 If it please the king, let it be written that they be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have the charge of the [king's] business, to bring it into the king's treasuries. 10 The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
  • Matt 14:6 : 6 But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced among them and pleased Herod.
  • Matt 20:16 : 16 So the last will be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few are chosen."
  • Matt 22:14 : 14 For many are called, but few chosen."