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 6:4The king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
• Ps 37:32The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.
• Esth 7:9–10Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were with the king said, “Behold, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, is standing at Haman’s house.” The king said, “Hang him on it!”
• 1 Kgs 21:7Jezebel his wife said to him, “Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry. I will give you 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, to kill those who are upright on the path.
• Ps 7:13–16He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death. He makes ready his flaming arrows.
• Acts 23:14–15They came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul.
• Prov 4:16For they don’t sleep, unless they do evil. Their sleep is taken away, unless they make someone fall.
• Amos 6:4–6Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the middle of the stall;
• Mark 14:10–11Judas Iscariot, who was one of the twelve, went away to the chief priests, that he might deliver him to them.
• Mark 6:19–24Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him, but she couldn’t,
• Ps 9:15The nations have sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.
• Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
• Rom 3:15“Their feet are swift to shed blood.
• Rev 11:10Those who dwell on the earth rejoice over them, and they will be glad. They will give gifts to one another, because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.
• 1 Kgs 21:25But there was no one like Ahab, who sold himself to do that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
• 2 Sam 16:21Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines that he has left to keep the house. Then all Israel will hear that you are abhorred by your father. Then the hands of all who are with you will 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 subtle man.
• 2 Chr 22:3–4He also walked in the ways of Ahab’s house, because his mother was his counselor in acting wickedly.
• Esth 3:8–15Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and their laws are different than other people’s. They don’t keep the king’s laws. Therefore it is not for the king’s profit to allow them to remain.
• Prov 1:18but these lay wait for their own blood. They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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