Esther

Esther
Queen of Persia
Queen Esther (1879) by Edwin Long
Queen of Persia
Predecessor	Vashti
Born	Hadassah c. 520 BCE Achaemenid Empire
Died	c. 450 BCE
Burial	Hamadan, Iran
Spouse	King Xerxes I of Persia
House	Persia
Father	Abihail (biological), Mordecai (adoptive)
Religion	Judaism

Esther (/ˈɛstər/; Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר, Modern Ester, Tiberian ʼEstēr), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther.

According to the Hebrew Bible, Esther was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus is traditionally identified with Xerxes I during the time of the Achaemenid Empire, although Flavius Josephus wrote that Esther's king husband was Xerxes' son Artaxerxes. Her story is the basis for the celebration of Purim in Jewish tradition.

King Ahasuerus (Xerxes IDarius I ) held a 180-day feast in Susa (Shoushan). While in "high spirits" from the wine, he ordered his queen, Vashti, to appear before him and his guests to display her beauty. But when the attendants delivered the king's command to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. Furious at her refusal to obey, the king asked his wise men what should be done. One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that "The King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not." Then these women would despise their husbands, which would cause many problems in the kingdom. Therefore, it would be prudent to depose Vashti.

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