If it please Your Majesty, issue a royal proclamation that Vashti may never again appear before the king. Have it written into the laws of Persia and Media, so that it can never be changed. Then give her place as queen to some better woman.

Then take the young woman you like best and make her queen in Vashti's place." The king thought this was good advice, so he followed it.

The king and his officials approved this plan,