Esther 1:20
“And when the king’s decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire, (for it is great,) all the wives shall give to their husbands honour, both to great and small.”
KJV
Read in Esther 1Meaning
The court imagines that domestic relationships can be secured by imperial command. The verse describes that political logic rather than prescribing coercive household rule as a moral ideal.