Thematic Bible: Peculiar customs in
Thematic Bible
Medo-persian kingdom » Peculiar customs in
and no restraint was placed on the drinking. The king had ordered every wine steward in his household to serve as much as each person wanted.
Verse Concepts
During the year before each young woman's turn to go to King Ahasuerus, the harem regulation required her to receive beauty treatments with oil of myrrh for six months and then with perfumes and cosmetics for [another] six months. When the young woman would go to the king, she was given whatever she requested to take with her from the harem to the palace.