Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Now when every maid's turn was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that she had been twelve months, according to the manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)

Six months

Bible References

To go in

1 Thessalonians 4:4
That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,

Six months

Luke 7:37
And, behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she knew that he reclined at table in the house of the Pharisee, brought an alabaster box of ointment,