Esther 5:13

Esther's Banquet

¹² Haman said, "Furthermore, Queen Esther invited only me to accompany the king to the banquet that she prepared! And also tomorrow I am invited along with the king. ¹³ Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate." ¹⁴ Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented." It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.

Jew

Mordecai

No

1 Kings 21:4-6

So Ahab went into his palace, bitter and angry that Naboth the Jezreelite had said, "I will not sell to you my ancestral inheritance." He lay down on his bed, pouted, and would not eat.

Esther 5:9

Now Haman went forth that day pleased and very much encouraged. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king's gate, and he did not rise nor tremble in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai.

Job 15:20

All his days the wicked man suffers torment, throughout the number of the years that are stored up for the tyrant.

Job 18:4

You who tear yourself to pieces in your anger, will the earth be abandoned for your sake? Or will a rock be moved from its place?

Ecclesiastes 1:2

"Futile! Futile!" laments the Teacher, "Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!"

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile -- like chasing the wind!

Philippians 4:11-12

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content in any circumstance.