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 6:4And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
• Ps 37:32The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.
• Esth 7:9–10And 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.
• 1 Kgs 21:7And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
• Ps 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation.
• Ps 7:13–16He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
• Acts 23:14–15And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
• Prov 4:16For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
• Amos 6:4–6That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
• Mark 14:10–11And Judas Iscariot, one of the twelve, went unto the chief priests, to betray him unto them.
• Mark 6:19–24Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:
• Ps 9:15The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Rom 1:32Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Rom 3:15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
• Rev 11:10And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.
• 1 Kgs 21:25But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• 2 Sam 16:21And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.
• 2 Sam 13:3–5But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.
• 2 Chr 22:3–4He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
• Esth 3:8–15And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
• Prov 1:18And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

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