'The Book of Esther' begins with King Ahaseurus of Persia having an epic house party. Ahaseurus was a good host; he provided lots of booze and had a very important rule about alcohol consumption:
'Drinks were served in golden vessels, vessels of different kinds, and the royal wine was lavished according to the bounty of the king. And drinking was according to this edict: “There is no compulsion.”'
By the party's seventh day (this was an epic house party), Ahaseurus and friends were very, very drunk. The king decided he wanted to show off his sexy wife, Queen Vashti, but she wasn't up for it.
This made Ahaseurus very angry; he consulted his drunken friends about what to do. They decided that it would be dangerous to keep Vashti as the queen after that disobedience; what if women all across the kingdom started disobeying their husbands?! He sent letters to every province saying that all women must honour their husbands, that every man be master in his own household. He also signed a royal order saying that Vashti was no longer queen, would never be queen again, and that this royal order couldn't be repealed.
After he'd calmed down and sobered up, Ahaseurus realised he needed a new queen. He sent officers across the kingdom to gather all the beautiful young virgins so he could pick his favourite.
Esther became queen and foiled an attempted genocide. Go Esther!
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