Strong's H4428: מֶלֶךְ (melek) Definition

Esther 1:16 - answered And Memucan before of the king and the princes of the king hath not done wrong Vashti the queen and the princes and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus

Esther 1:17 - shall come abroad For this deed of the queen unto all women so that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes commanded The king Ahasuerus commanded him but she came Vashti of the queen before him but she came

Esther 1:18 - this day say Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media which have heard of the deed of the queen princes unto all the king's Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath

Esther 1:19 - and let the king If it please let there go commandment a royal from him and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes that it be not altered come That Vashti from him and let the king Ahasuerus a royal give and let the king unto another that is better

Esther 1:20 - shall be published decree And when the king's which he shall make throughout all his empire for it is great all the wives shall give honour to their husbands both to great and small

Esther 1:21 - pleased And the saying and the king and the princes did and the king And the saying of Memucan

Esther 1:22 - For he sent letters into every province into all the king's into every province into every province according to the writing of every people of every people according to the language that every man should bear rule in his own house and that it should be published according to the language of every people

Esther 2:1 - After these things was appeased when the wrath of king Ahasuerus he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what was decreed

Esther 2:2 - Then said servants for the king that ministered sought for the king young virgins unto him Let there be fair

Esther 2:3 - appoint And let the king officers in all the provinces of his kingdom that they may gather together young virgins all the fair unto Shushan the palace to the house of the women unto the custody of Hege chamberlain And let the king keeper of the women be given and let their things for purification

Esther 2:4 - And let the maiden pleased the king be queen instead of Vashti pleased And the thing the king and he did so

Esther 2:6 - Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity Who had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah Who had been carried away whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon

Esther 2:8 - was heard commandment So it came to pass when the king's and his decree were gathered together maidens and when many unto Shushan the palace to the custody of Hegai was brought that Esther house So it came to pass when the king's to the custody of Hegai keeper of the women

Esther 2:9 - pleased And the maiden him and she obtained kindness of him and he speedily her her things for purification with such things as belonged gave to her and seven And the maiden which were meet gave house her out of the king's and he preferred And the maiden unto the best house of the women

Esther 2:12 - was come turn Now when every maid's Now when every maid's to go in to king Ahasuerus after according to the manner of the women that she had been twelve months accomplished for so were the days of their purifications and six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet odours and with other things for the purifying of the women

Esther 2:13 - every maiden Then thus came unto the king whatsoever she desired was given Then thus came house of the women house unto the king

Esther 2:14 - In the evening she came in and on the morrow she returned house of the women into the second to the custody of Shaashgaz chamberlain no more except the king which kept the concubines she came in no more except the king delighted no more except the king in her and that she were called by name

Esther 2:15 - was come Now when the turn And Esther her for his daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai who had taken her for his daughter to go in the king's she required nothing appointed but what Hegai chamberlain the king's the keeper of the women And Esther obtained favour in the sight of all them that looked

Esther 2:16 - was taken So Esther unto king Ahasuerus into his house of his reign month in the tenth month Tebeth year in the seventh of his reign

Esther 2:17 - loved And the king Esther above all the women and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins so that he set crown the royal upon her head and made her queen instead of Vashti