Greek Esther 1:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Dismissal of Queen Vashti

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when the king was in good humour, he told Haman, Bazan, Tharra, Boraze, Zatholtha, Abataza, and Tharaba, the seven eunuchs who served King Artaxerxes, ¹¹ to escort the queen to him in order to proclaim her as queen and to place the diadem on her head, and to have her display her beauty to all the governors and the people of various nations, for she was indeed a beautiful woman. ¹² But Queen Vashti^[a] refused to obey him and would not come with the eunuchs. This offended the king and he became furious.