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;)
To go in
Six months
Bible References
To go in
1 Thessalonians 4:4
that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,
Six months
Proverbs 7:17
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Song of Songs 3:6
The Speaker: Who is this coming up from the desert like a column of smoke, like a fragrant billow of myrrh and frankincense, every kind of fragrant powder of the traveling merchants?
Isaiah 57:9
You take olive oil as tribute to your king, along with many perfumes. You send your messengers to a distant place; you go all the way to Sheol.
Luke 7:37
Then when a woman of that town, who was a sinner, learned that Jesus was dining at the Pharisee's house, she brought an alabaster jar of perfumed oil.