Esther 6:6

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Summary

So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

Whom the king, etc

To whom

Obadiah 1:3

General references

Proverbs 16:18

Bible References

Whom the king, etc

Let them shout for joy and be glad that favour my righteous cause; let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, who has pleasure in the peace of his slave.

Behold my slave, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he shall give judgment unto the Gentiles.

Thou shalt no longer be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any longer be termed Desolate; but thou shalt be called Hephzibah and thy land Beulah; ; for the will of the LORD shall be in thee, and thy land shall be married.

And, I will rejoice with them doing them good, and I will plant them in this land with truth, with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

and, behold, a voice from the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

that everyone should honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that does not honour the Son does not honour the Father who has sent him.

To whom

And all the king's slaves that were in the king's gate, knelt down and worshipped Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not kneel or worship before him.

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches and the multitude of his sons and all the things in which the king had promoted him and how he had advanced him above the princes and slaves of the king.

For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Before being broken, the heart of man is haughty, and before coming into honour, comes being brought to humility.

There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.

The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

General references

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.