So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.
And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the kingdom.
Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.
we are sold.
Esther 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed…
Esther 4:7,8 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened to him…
Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the …
1 Samuel 22:23 Abide you with me, fear not: for he that seeks my life seeks your …
to be destroyed, etc. Heb. that they should destroy, and kill, and cause to perish.
Esther 3:13 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, …
Esther 8:11 Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather …
Psalm 44:22,23 Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted …
But if we.
Genesis 37:26-28 And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our …
Deuteronomy 28:68 And the LORD shall bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the …
Joshua 9:23 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed …
Nehemiah 5:5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children as …
Joel 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have you …
Amos 2:6 Thus said the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, …
the enemy.
Esther 7:6 And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then …
Esther 3:9 If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed…
Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do so?
And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
The adversary. Heb. The man adversary, this wicked.
1 Samuel 24:13 As said the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceeds from the …
Psalm 27:2 When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes, came on me to eat up …
Psalm 139:19-22 Surely you will slay the wicked, O God: depart from me therefore, …
Proverbs 24:24,25 He that said to the wicked, You are righteous; him shall the people …
Ecclesiastes 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of …
1 Corinthians 5:13 But them that are without God judges. Therefore put away from among …
2 Thessalonians 2:8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume …
was afraid.
Nehemiah 6:16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof, and …
Job 15:21,22 A dreadful sound is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall …
Job 18:5-12 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his …
Psalm 73:5-9,17-20 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men…
Proverbs 16:14 The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.
Isaiah 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …
Daniel 5:5,6 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand…
before. or, at the presence of.
And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
the bed.
Esther 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords …
Isaiah 49:23 And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their queens your nursing …
before me. Heb. with me. they covered Haman's. When a criminal was condemned by a Roman judge, he was delivered to the serjeant with these words: {I, lictor, caput obnubito arbori infelici suspendito,} Go, sergeant, cover his head, and hang him on the accursed tree.
Esther 6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to …
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces …
Isaiah 22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and …
And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
Harbonah.
Esther 1:10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, …
Harbona. one of the chamberlains.
Esther 6:14 And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains…
2 Kings 9:32 And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? …
Behold.
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows …
Job 27:20-23 Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest steals him away in the night…
Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Psalm 35:8 Let destruction come on him at unawares; and let his net that he …
Psalm 141:10 Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I with escape.
Proverbs 11:5,6 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked …
gallows. Heb. tree. who had spoken.
Esther 2:21-23 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the …
Esther 6:2 And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and …
Hang him thereon.
Esther 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that …
1 Samuel 17:51 Therefore David ran, and stood on the Philistine, and took his sword, …
Psalm 7:15,16 He made a pit, and dig it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made…
Psalm 9:15,16 The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which …
Psalm 35:8 Let destruction come on him at unawares; and let his net that he …
Psalm 37:35,36 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like …
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly …
Proverbs 11:5,6 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked …
Daniel 6:7,24 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, …
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
