Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.

Came before

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Bible References

Give the house

Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches,
Proverbs 13:22
A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.
Proverbs 28:8
He who augments his substance by interest and increase, gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, Thou foolish man, they demand thy soul from thee this night, and the things that thou prepared, whose will they be?

Came before

Esther 1:14
and next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media who saw the king's face, and sat first in the kingdom),
Esther 2:7
And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter. For she had neither father nor mother, and the maiden was fair and beautiful. And when her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his own daughter.

General references

Genesis 31:9
Thus God has taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.