Esther 1:19
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.
Vashti was holding her own feast for women of rank, and she conducted it with modest courtesy, without wantonness or sensuality. She refused the king's command to come before him from a pure conscience, unwilling to appear before men made reckless by wine. At that time the king was drunk and unable to judge wisely. The counsel and decision that produced the command came from the king and his advisers while their judgment was clouded by wine and indulgence, in a course that did not glorify God. They treated her refusal as a threat to husbands' authority, arguing that its example would give women a power to their injury.
The verse issues a royal commandment to be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, that Vashti come no more before King Ahasuerus and that the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she. That decree was an unjust punishment, and the king afterward recognized that Vashti deserved honor rather than such treatment. Though unjust in itself, the removal of Vashti became part of the circumstances through which Esther came to the Medo-Persian throne and God accomplished His purposes for Israel.