Esther 1:12-14

American Standard Version

¹² But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king’s commandment by the chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

¹³ Then the king said to the wise men, who knew the times (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment; ¹⁴ and the next unto him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),