Esther 1:4 Parallel Translations

He showed them the enormous wealth of his kingdom and the costly splendor of his greatness for many days, 180 to be exact.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days.

ASV:

when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.

BBE:

And for a long time, even a hundred and eighty days, he let them see all the wealth and the glory of his kingdom and the great power and honour which were his.

DBY:

when he shewed the glorious wealth of his kingdom and the splendid magnificence of his grandeur many days, a hundred and eighty days.

ERV:

when he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore days. t

JPS:

when he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty, many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.

WBS:

When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and eighty days.

WEB:

He displayed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even one hundred eighty days.

YLT:

in his shewing the wealth of the honour of his kingdom, and the glory of the beauty of his greatness, many days -- eighty and a hundred days.

Esther 1:4 Cross References

XREF:

Esther 1:3 in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and attendants, the army officers of Persia and Media, the nobles and the princes of his provinces being in his presence.

Esther 1:5 When these days were completed, the king gave a banquet lasting seven days for all the people who were present at the citadel in Susa, from the greatest to the least, in the court of the garden of the king's palace. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

1:4 Many days - Making every day a magnificent feast, either for all his princes, or for some of them, who might come to the feast successively, as the king ordered them to do. The Persian feasts are much celebrated in authors, for their length and luxury.

MHC:

1:1-9 The pride of Ahasuerus's heart rising with the grandeur of his kingdom, he made an extravagant feast. This was vain glory. Better is a dinner of herbs with quietness, than this banquet of wine, with all the noise and tumult that must have attended it. But except grace prevails in the heart, self-exaltation and self-indulgence, in one form or another, will be the ruling principle. Yet none did compel; so that if any drank to excess, it was their own fault. This caution of a heathen prince, even when he would show his generosity, may shame many called Christians, who, under pretence of sending the health round, send sin round, and death with it. There is a woe to them that do so; let them read it, and tremble, Hab 2:15,16.

CONC:

180 Displayed Eighty Excellent Fourscore Glorious Glory Grandeur Greatness Honor Honour Hundred Kingdom Magnificence Majesty Pomp Power Riches Royal Shewed Shewing Showed Splendid Splendor Vast Wealth

Displayed Eighty Excellent Fourscore Full Glorious Glory Grandeur Great Honor Honour Hundred Kingdom Magnificence Majesty Pomp Power Riches Royal Shewed Shewing Showed Splendid Splendor Vast Wealth

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