Vashti is seen as a strong character who did not use her beauty or sexuality for self-advancement. She valued herself as a woman and her identity as a human being was more important to her than her position as queen.
Given that the Haman episode began in the 12th year of the king's reign is five years into his and Esther's marriage, they would have enjoyed just nine further years together before their assassination.
Delving deeper into Nimrod's story, as told by these other texts, we encounter a theory that adds layers of complexity and intrigue: the assertion that he married his own mother, Semiramis.
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Did King Nimrod marry his mother?
Nimrod was so evil, it is said he married his own mother, whose name was Semiramis. After Nimrod's untimely death, his so-called mother-wife, Semiramis, propagated the evil doctrine of the survival of Nimrod as a spirit being.
How old was Esther when she got married to the king?
How old was Esther when she married the king of Persia, Achashverosh? There are three opinions in the Talmud. According to the Sage Rav, she was forty years old. Another Sage, Shmuel, stated that she was eighty years old.
Not much is revealed about her character, but she is described as beautiful (2:7) and obedient (2:10), and she appears to be pliant and cooperative. She quickly wins the favor of the chief eunuch, Hegai, and, when her turn comes to spend the night with the king, Ahasuerus falls in love with her and makes her his queen.
Darius used little Vashti to cement his own legacy by marrying her to one of his most faithful vassals, a promising young military man named Ahasuerus. But Xerxes, as his Greek enemies called him, was a better leader in wartime than in peace, and he bitterly resented his role as the queen's consort.
The king falls in love with her and makes her his Queen. Following Esther's coronation, Mordecai learns of an assassination plot by Bigthan and Teresh to kill King Ahasuerus. Mordecai tells Esther, who tells the king in the name of Mordecai, and he is saved.
Eliah's daughter was Abihail, and Abihail's daughter was Esther. Jesse's last born son was the legendary King David…that same boy who conquered Goliath. The same man who is the ancestor of our Savior Jesus Christ. Esther is a direct descendant of Jesse, and King David is her great-uncle.
That Esther and the king had a sexual relationship during the night is clear from Esth 2:14: “She [Esther] would not go in to the king again unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.”
What happened to Vashti after she was no longer queen?
And let Your Majesty bestow her royal state upon another who is more worthy than she.” Memucan possibly proposed that the king depose her as queen and banish her from the palace. A recurring theme in the midrashim is that Vashti was not merely deposed, but executed.
She was exiled. Esther and a significant number of the Jewish people lived scattered throughout Persia after the Babylonian exile. Although they had been granted freedom to return to their homeland, many of the Jewish people stayed where they had settled rather than return to a war-torn Jerusalem.
Deborah, the only female judge in the Bible, excelled in multiple areas. Clearly one of the Bible's most outstanding figures, she served ancient Israel as a prophet,2 judge, military leader, songwriter, and minstrel (Judges 4–5).
The king chose Esther. Mordechai had warned her not to reveal that she was Jewish, so she kept that part of her identity secret. Esther remained in this state of hiddenness for years, maintaining a daily charade. Eventually, Haman, the king's advisor, grew furious at Mordechai.
Weaknesses: 1. Fearful – Esther was slow to come around to the idea of going in to visit the king. Her first reaction was fear and concern for her own life.
"Ahasuerus" is given as the name of a king, the husband of Esther, in the Book of Esther. He is said to have "ruled over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Nubia" – that is, over the Achaemenid Empire.
Most Christian historians believe Mary was around 15-16 years old when she gave birth to Jesus. This might seem surprising today, but it fits the customs of first-century Judea. Let's uncover the truth about Mary's age, and why this question fascinates both faith and scholarship.
The king called for all the beautiful young virgins to come to him. Esther was one of them, and she did not tell anybody that she was a Jew because Mordecai had told her not to. After 12 months of beauty preparation, the women went to the king. The king chose Esther to be his queen.
Interesting were last week's despatches from the Cairo newspaper Mokattam that diggers have found the rich tomb of Solomon's favorite wife Moti Maris of Memphis, on the Mount of the Temple (Jerusalem's Mount Moriah).
Since Isaac was twenty-six years old at the time, and forty when he married Rebekah (Gen. 25:20), she was thus fourteen years old when she married (Seder Olam Rabbah 1). Another tradition gives her age as three years and three days when she left her father's house (Tractate Soferim, Hosafah [addition] 1, 1:4).
There were also instances of pharaohs marrying their daughters: Ramesses II (reigned circa 1279 B.C. to1213 B.C.) took Meritamen, one of his daughters, as a wife.
