Esther 1:12-14

Darby Translation

¹² But the queen Vashti refused to come at the word of the king which was [sent] by the chamberlains; and the king was very wroth, and his fury burned in him.

¹³ And the king said to the wise men who knew the times (for so was the king's business [conducted] before all that knew law and judgment;

¹⁴ and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, [and] Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king's face, and who sat first in the kingdom),