Esther 5:14

Zeresh and his friends advise building a fifty-cubit gallows and asking the king to hang Mordecai, and the pleased Haman has it made. The instrument of his own death is now prepared.

Cross-references · 21

• Esth 6:4“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
• Ps 37:32Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
• Esth 7:9–10Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
• 1 Kgs 21:7But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
• Ps 37:14The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.
• Ps 7:13–16He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.
• Acts 23:14–15They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything until we have killed Paul.
• Prov 4:16For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.
• Amos 6:4–6You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the stall.
• Mark 14:10–11Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.
• Mark 6:19–24So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,
• Ps 9:15The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
• Rom 1:32Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rom 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
• Rev 11:10And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.
• 1 Kgs 21:25(Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel.
• 2 Sam 16:21Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
• 2 Sam 13:3–5Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,
• 2 Chr 22:3–4Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
• Esth 3:8–15Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
• Prov 1:18But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

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