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 made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.
• Prov 11:5–6The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
• Esth 1:10On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,
• Esth 5:14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
• Ps 35:8Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
• Ps 141:10Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
• Dan 6:24And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.
• Ps 9:15–16The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
• Esth 9:25But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
• Esth 6:14And while they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
• Esth 6:2And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
• Job 27:20–23Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
• Dan 6:7All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
• Ps 37:35–36I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
• 1 Sam 17:51Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
• Ps 73:19How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
• Esth 2:21–23In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king’s gate, two of the king’s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
• 2 Kgs 9:32And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? who? And there looked out to him two or three eunuchs.

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