Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate, but Haman gat him home in all the haste, mourning bare-headed,
New American Standard Bible
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning,
King James Version
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Holman Bible
Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate,
International Standard Version
Then Mordecai returned to the king's gate, while Haman hurried to his house, mourning and hiding his face.
A Conservative Version
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
American Standard Version
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Amplified
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his [own] house, mourning and with his head covered [in sorrow].
Bible in Basic English
And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.
Darby Translation
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Julia Smith Translation
And Mordecai will turn back to the king's gate. And Haman hastened to his house, and the head covered.
King James 2000
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Then Mordecai returned to the gate of the king, and Haman rushed to his house mournful and with his head covered.
Modern King James verseion
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hurried to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
NET Bible
Then Mordecai again sat at the king's gate, while Haman hurried away to his home, mournful and with a veil over his head.
New Heart English Bible
Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
The Emphasized Bible
Then Mordecai returned unto the gate of the king, - but, Haman, hurried unto his own house, mourning, and with covered head.
Webster
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
World English Bible
Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
Youngs Literal Translation
And Mordecai turneth back unto the gate of the king, and Haman hath been hastened unto his house mourning, and with covered head,
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Esther 6:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
Mordecai Is Honored
11 Then took Haman the raiment and the horse, and arrayed him, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, "Even thus shall it be done unto every man whom the king is disposed to honour!" 12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate, but Haman gat him home in all the haste, mourning bare-headed, 13 and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends, everything that had happened him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, "If it be Mordecai of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou canst do nothing unto him, but shalt fall before him."
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 15:30
And David went up on Mount Olivet and wept as he went, and had his head covered and went thereto barefoot. And all the people that was with him, had every man his head covered, and as they went, wept also.
Jeremiah 14:3-4
The lords shall send their servants to fetch water, and when they come to the wells, they shall find no water, but shall carry their vessels home empty. They shall be ashamed and confounded, and shall cover their heads.
1 Samuel 3:15
And Samuel lay till morning and then opened the doors of the house of the LORD. But Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.
2 Samuel 17:23
And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass and arose and gat him home to his own house and to his own city, and put his household in order and hanged himself and died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.
1 Kings 20:43
And the king of Israel went to his house wayward and heavy, and entered into Samaria.
1 Kings 21:4
Then went Ahab unto his house wayward and evil apaid, because of the words which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken unto him, saying, "I will not give to thee the inheritance of my fathers." And he laid him down upon his bed and turned away his face, and would eat no meat.
2 Chronicles 26:20
And Azariah the chief priest with all the other priests looked upon him: and behold he was a leper in his forehead, and they vexed him thence. And thereto he was fain to go out, because the LORD had plagued him.
Esther 2:19
And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai sat in the king's gate.
Esther 7:8
And when the king came again out of the palace garden into the parlor where they had eaten, Haman had laid him upon the bed that Esther sat upon. Then said the king, "Will he force the queen also? Beside me, in the house?" As soon as that word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
Job 9:24
As for the world, he giveth it over into the power of the wicked; and he shall cover the faces of the judges thereof. Is it not so? Where is he - or who is he - that can show the contrary?
Job 20:5
the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?
Psalm 131:1-2
{A song of the stairs} LORD, I am not high-minded; I have no proud looks. I do not exercise myself in great matters which are too high for me.