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Memucan

A person of the Babylonian exile and the return, first named at Esther 1:14.

Lived: Exile and Return

Where in scripture

Esther
Esther 1:14Esther 1:16Esther 1:21

In their own words — 1 recorded saying

“And before the king and the captains, Memucan gave his answer: Vashti the queen has done wrong, not only to the king, but to all the captains and to all the peoples in all the divisions of the kingdom of King Ahasuerus; For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not. And the wives of the captains of Persia and Media, hearing what the queen has done, will say the same to all the king's captains. So there…” — Esther 1:16-20

Speaker attribution: Clear Bible MACULA (CC BY 4.0). Wording: Bible in Basic English (public domain).