Esther 7:9

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Summary

And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

One of the chamberlains

Esther 6:14

2 Kings 9:32

Behold

Who had spoken

Esther 2:21

Esther 6:2

Hang him thereon

General references

Proverbs 11:8

Bible References

One of the chamberlains

While they were yet talking with him, the king's chamberlains came, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who is on my side? Who? And two or three eunuchs looked out to him.

Behold

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it. Then go thou in merrily with the king to the banquet. And t

Terrors overtake him like waters. A tempest steals him away in the night.

He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I pass over.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Who had spoken

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those who kept the threshold, were angry, and sought to lay hands on king Ahasuerus.

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those who kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on king Ahasuerus.

Hang him thereon

But when [the matter] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Then David ran, and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath of it, and killed him, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

He has made a pit, and dug it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.

The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made. In the net which they hid, their own foot is taken.

Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net that he has hid catch himself. Let him fall in it with destruction.

I have seen a wicked man in great power, and spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

How they have become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way, but the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whoever shall ask a petition of any god o

General references

A righteous man is delivered out of trouble, and a wicked man comes in his stead.