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, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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

Behold

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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

He hath made a pit, and digged it, And is fallen into the ditch which he made.

Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, Whilst that I withal escape.

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked 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 that kept the threshold, were wroth, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.

And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, of those that kept the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on the 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 thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

He hath made a pit, and digged 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 is their own foot taken.

Let destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.

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

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

The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way; But the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counsellors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a strong interdict, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

General references

The righteous is delivered out of trouble, And the wicked cometh in his stead.