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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

Who had spoken

General references

Bible References

One of the chamberlains

Esther 6:14
While they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and caused Haman to make haste to come unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
2 Kings 9:32
And he lifted up his eyes to the window and said, "Who is of my side? Who?" And there looked out to him two or three lords that were chamberlains.

Behold

Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, "Let them make a gallows of fifty cubits high, and tomorrow speak thou unto the king, that Mordecai may be hanged thereon, if thou comest merrily with the king unto the banquet." Haman was well content withal, and caused a gallows to be prepared.
Job 27:20
Destruction taketh hold upon him as a water flood, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season.
Psalm 7:15
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.
Psalm 35:8
Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.
Psalm 141:10
Let the ungodly fall into their own nets together, and let me ever escape them.
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.

Who had spoken

Esther 2:21
At the same time, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay their hands on the king Ahasuerus:
Esther 6:2
they happened on the place where it was written how Mordecai had told, that the king's two chamberlains which kept the thresholds sought to lay hands on king Ahasuerus.

Hang him thereon

Esther 9:25
and how Esther went and spake to the king, that through letters his wicked device - which he imagined against the Jews - might be turned upon his own head, and how he and his sons were hanged on the tree.
1 Samuel 17:51
he ran and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of his sheath and slew him and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.
Psalm 7:15
He hath graven and dug up a pit, and is fallen himself into the destruction that he made for others.
Psalm 9:15
The Heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made; in the same net which they hid privily, is their own foot taken.
Psalm 35:8
Let a sudden destruction come upon him unawares, and his net that he hath laid privily catch himself, that he may fall into his own mischief.
Psalm 37:35
I myself have seen the ungodly in great power, and flourishing like a green bay-tree.
Psalm 73:19
O how suddenly do they consume, perish and come to a fearful end!
Proverbs 11:5
The righteousness of the innocent ordereth his way; but the ungodly shall fall in his own wickedness.
Daniel 6:7
All the great estates of the realm - as the princes, dukes, senators and judges - are determined to put out a commandment of the king, and to make a sure statute. Namely, that whoso desireth any petition, either of any god or man within this thirty days, except it be only of thee, O king: the same person may be cast into the lions' den.

General references

Proverbs 11:8
The righteous shall be delivered out of trouble; and the ungodly shall come in his stead.