Queen Esther later learns of a plot by Haman, the king's top official, to destroy all the Jews because Mordecai won't bow down to him. Beside himself with rage, Ahasuerus goes out into the palace garden. Esther's deliverance of her people is annually commemorated by the Jewish festival of Purim. As for the vanquished Vashti, her reasons for disobeying the king are not actually stated in the story. Even if a eunuch were tempted to fool around with a royal concubine in his charge, he could not impregnate her.
Several eunuchs appear in the Bible.
Among the Hebrews being a eunuch was not a coveted position. Castration is even held out to have its spiritual rewards. Presumably Jesus' saying , which historically is one justification for celibacy in the Catholic priesthood, is meant to encourage sexual abstinence, not literal castration. They both were wives of Yahweh and bore children, then became adulteresses on an international scale. Yet her sister Oholibah, on seeing this, was even more corrupt than Oholah.