Esther 7
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So the king and Haman went to dine with Queen Esther.
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And on the second day, a at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, "What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!"
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Then Queen Esther answered and said, "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.
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"For we have been b sold, my people and I, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. Had we been sold as c male and female slaves, I would have held my tongue, although the enemy could never compensate for the king's loss."
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So King Ahasuerus answered and said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do such a thing?"
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And Esther said, "The adversary and d enemy is this wicked Haman!" So Haman was terrified before the king and queen.
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Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.
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When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across e the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?" As the word left the king's mouth, they f covered Haman's face.
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Now g Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, "Look! h The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke i good on the king's behalf, is standing at the house of Haman." Then the king said, "Hang him on it!"
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So j they k hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath subsided.
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Cross References
Esther 5:6
At the banquet of wine the king said to Esther, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!
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Cross References
Esther 3:9
"If it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who do the work, to bring it into the king's treasuries."
Esther 4:7
And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries to destroy the Jews.
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Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:68
"And the LORD will take you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said to you, 'You shall never see it again.' And there you shall be offered for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you."
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Cross References
Esther 3:10
So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
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Cross References
Esther 1:6
There were white and blue linen curtains fastened with cords of fine linen and purple on silver rods and marble pillars; and the couches were of gold and silver on a mosaic pavement of alabaster, turquoise, and white and black marble.
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Cross References
Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?
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Cross References
Esther 1:10
On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus.
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Cross References
Esther 5:14
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet." And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.
Psalms 7:16
His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way aright, But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, But the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
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Cross References
Esther 6:2
And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
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Cross References
Psalms 7:16
His trouble shall return upon his own head, And his violent dealing shall come down on his own crown.
Psalms 94:23
He has brought on them their own iniquity, And shall cut them off in their own wickedness; The LORD our God shall cut them off.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way aright, But the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
Proverbs 11:6
The righteousness of the upright will deliver them, But the unfaithful will be caught by their lust.
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Cross References
Psalms 37:35
I have seen the wicked in great power, And spreading himself like a native green tree.
Psalms 37:36
Yet he passed away, and behold, he was no more; Indeed I sought him, but he could not be found.
Daniel 6:24
And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions - them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den.
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