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| Name |
VASHTI |
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Female |
| _UID |
50A33CD53B49A3419E059038681D710CD9A4 |
| Death |
Yes, date unknown |
| Notes |
- Personal name meaning, beautiful. Wife of King Ahasuerus and queen of Persia and Media (Esth1:9). The king called for her to show off her beauty to a group he was entertaining, but she refused. Vashti was deposed as queen (Est 1:19), and a beauty contest was arranged to select a new queen. Esther was chosen as the new queen (Est 2:16). No records yet have been recovered which name Vashti as the queen of any king of the Medo-Persian Empire, leading some to speculate whether she was a historical person. The only other queen with Ahasuerus (also called Xerxes) was named Amestris.
vashti (10)
Est 1:9, Est 1:11-12 (2), Est 1:15-17 (3), Est 1:19, Est 2:1, Est 2:4, Est 2:17
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| Person ID |
I4342 |
z-Bible Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
24 Dec 2007 |
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| Photos |
 | Vashti
Vashti Refuses the King's Summons
by Edwin Long (1879)
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