1;  Ahasuerus makes royal feasts.
 10;  Vashti, sent for, refuses to come.
 13;  Ahasuerus, by the counsel of Memucan, puts away Vashti, and
     makes the decree of men's sovereignty.

 * Ahasuerus.
   Prideaux has shewn satisfactorily that Ahasuerus was the
   Artaxerxes Longimanus of the Greeks, agreeably to the
   Septuagint and Josephus.  See note on Ezr 6:14.

  Ezr 4:6  Da 9:1 
 * from India.
  8:9  Isa 18:1  37:9 
 * an hundred.
  Da 6:1