Esther 1:19-21

Living Bible

¹⁹ We suggest that, subject to your agreement, you issue a royal edict, a law of the Medes and Persians that can never be changed, that Queen Vashti be forever banished from your presence and that you choose another queen more worthy than she. ²⁰ When this decree is published throughout your great kingdom, husbands everywhere, whatever their rank, will be respected by their wives!”

²¹ The king and all his aides thought this made good sense, so he followed Memucan’s counsel