Esther 1:5
King James VersionSource notes
“And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;”
Context
2in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which in Shushan the palace,
3In the third year of his reign, he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces, before him:
4When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honour of his excellent majesty many days, an hundred and fourscore days.
5And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king’s palace;
6white, green, and blue, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.
7And they gave drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.
8And the drinking according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.