for this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall despise their husbands before their eyes, and shall say, 'The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to come before him, but she would not.'

And so shall the princesses in Persia and Media say likewise unto all the king's princes, when they hear of this deed of the queen, thus shall there arise dispitefulness and wrath enough.

Esther spake unto Hathach, and commanded him to say unto Mordecai,

Mordecai bade say again unto Esther, "Think not to save thine own life, while thou art in the king's house before all Jews: