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 every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

Six months

Luke 7:37
And, behold, a certain woman in the city, who was a notorious offender, when she knew that Jesus was sitting at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster vessel of odoriferous balm,