What happened with Queen Vashti

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While I was reading the book of Esther 1-2, I found out that King Xerxes (Ahasuerus) got drunk and asked to his wife to show her beauty in public, she denied for it was improper and then King Ahasuerus got angry and ‘divorced ‘ or ‘annulled’ His marriage.

My questions are
  1. how is it possible that Esther married a married man?
  2. What happened to Queen Vashti, for she was his wife after the adultery committed by her husband?
May the Virgin Mary accompany!
 
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Multiple wives was not only common, it was a sign of the King’s power. King Solomon had 1,000 wives. King David had many wives. Jacob was not a King, but, an important person in Salvation History, had two wives.
 
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I just figured she was de-queened and sent back home to her people.

Or stayed in the palace with a reduced rank and status.
 
According to the Aggadah (or Haggadah), a book of Jewish tradition and folklore, Vashti was the daughter of the Babylonian king Belshazzar. The night that Belshazzar was killed, Vashti was captured by the conquering Persians and given to Xerxes as a wife. According to various legends, Vashti’s refusal to appear before the king was due to modesty (she was told to appear nude), fear for her husband’s life (she figured she would be mobbed by the drunken crowd and the king would be killed), loathing for her husband (whom she considered to have non-royal blood), or the fact that she herself had leprosy. Another tradition says that Vashti was not simply banished from the king’s presence but was executed. It’s important to note that none of these details are in the biblical account, and there is no way to confirm their veracity.
 
Giuliajes said:
  • how is it possible that Esther married a married man?
  • What happened to Queen Vashti, for she was his wife after the adultery committed by her husband?
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  1. As others have said, polygamy was common then, especially for kings, and David, Solomon, Jacob, even Abraham, had multiple wives. I’ve always been more surprised by the fact that Esther married a gentile, since her uncle was such a devout Jew and one would think he would wish his niece to marry within the Jewish faith. However, her uncle was also a court official and would likely have considered the possible advantage to both himself and the Jewish people of having his niece as the queen.
  2. We don’t know what happened to Vashti. It seems likely that after she was deposed from being the queen, she was either killed, sent back where she came from, or simply shunted aside to live out her life out of the public eye. Her husband taking new wives or concubines would not have been seen then as adulterous, unless perhaps he was taking the wives of other men for his own.
 
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I suspect that this polygamy of the old testament was a prefiguration of religious life in the Church, where the professed woman religious is the bride of Christ.
 
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. I’ve always been more surprised by the fact that Esther married a gentile, since her uncle was such a devout Jew and one would think he would wish his niece to marry within the Jewish faith
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I don’t believe she ever had a choice. The King simply took her.
 
Her uncle brought her with all the other beautiful young girls for the king’s review. Of course, maybe he felt like he had to, but it seems like he had the choice to hide her, or make her ugly, and instead he presented her in all her glory.
 
God used her to save the Israelites.

Edit: @Tis_Bearself. Make her ugly? Do you mean he could have scarred her face or some such thing?
 
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Did not they have to follow Moses’ law and the Ten Commandments? For those were not only for the common person, but for everyone. I in my God theology may dare to say that even during their polygamy, licentious behavior, was not King Solomon died from STD’s? -there was God, if not check what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.
Queen Esther or Esther, there’s nothing else in the Bible if she repented her actions, for God doesn’t force her to sin, but to be merciful and restoration…
 
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He was deceived by his uncle and wanted to marry just Rachel. The two concubines were suggested by the envious behavior between sisters to compete for having more children.

Jacob also betrayed his brother Esau.
 
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