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 should know how to have his wife in purity and honor,

Six months

Luke 7:37
And behold, a certain woman in the city, a sinner, knowing that he was reclining in the house of the Pharisee, brought a vase of ointment,