Esther 8:1

The king gives Haman's estate to Esther, and Mordecai comes before the king as Esther reveals their kinship. The enemy's wealth passes to those he sought to destroy.

Cross-references · 11

• Esth 2:7He brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter; for she had neither father nor mother. The maiden was fair and beautiful; and when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.
• Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
• Esth 2:15Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, came to go in to the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king’s eunuch, the keeper of the women, advised. Esther obtained favor in the sight of all those who looked at her.
• Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
• Esth 7:6Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• Eccl 2:18–19I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
• Esth 1:14and the next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who saw the king’s face, and sat first in the kingdom),
• Ps 49:6–13Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

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