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
Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

Six months

Luke 7:37
Just then a woman, who was an outcast in the town, having ascertained that Jesus was at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster jar of perfume,