Esther 7:9

Harbonah points out the towering gallows Haman built for Mordecai, and the king orders Haman hanged on it. The trap closes on its maker.

Cross-references · 18

• Ps 7:15–16He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.
• Prov 11:5–6The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
• Esth 1:10On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas—
• Esth 5:14His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
• Ps 35:8May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
• Ps 141:10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass by in safety.
• Dan 6:24At the command of the king, the men who had falsely accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they and their children and wives. And before they had reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones.
• Ps 9:15–16The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.
• Esth 9:25But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Esth 6:14While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
• Esth 6:2And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
• Job 27:20–23Terrors overtake him like a flood; a tempest sweeps him away in the night.
• Dan 6:7All the royal administrators, prefects, satraps, advisers, and governors have agreed that the king should establish an ordinance and enforce a decree that for thirty days anyone who petitions any god or man except you, O king, will be thrown into the den of lions.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,
• 1 Sam 17:51David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
• Ps 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Esth 2:21–23In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
• 2 Kgs 9:32He looked up at the window and called out, “Who is on my side? Who?” And two or three eunuchs looked down at him.

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