The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Esther 2:22 (NIV)

But Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

 

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Esther 2:23 (ERV)
And when inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:1 (HCSB)

After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite. He promoted him in rank and gave him a higher position than all the other officials.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:2 (HCSB)

The entire royal staff at the King’s Gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded this to be done for him. But Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage.

 

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Esther 3:3 (ESV)
Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

 

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Esther 3:4 (AKJV)
Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he listened not to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:5 (NKJV)

When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:6 (NKJV)

But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had told him of the people of Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus—the people of Mordecai.

 

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Esther 3:7 (NASB)
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, Pur, that is the lot, was cast before Haman from day to day and from month to month, until the twelfth month, that is the month Adar.

 

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Esther 3:8 (NASB)
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:9 (NASB)

If it is pleasing to the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry on the king’s business, to put into the king’s treasuries.”

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:10 (NASB)

Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

 

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Esther 3:11 (King James 2000 Bible)
And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:12 (NASB)

Then the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and it was written just as Haman commanded to the king’s satraps, to the governors who were over each province and to the princes of each people, each province according to its script, each people according to its language, being written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

 

[Deade]

Esther 3:13 (NASB)

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces to destroy, to kill and to annihilate all the Jews, both young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to seize their possessions as plunder.

 

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Esther 3:14 (Jubilee Bible 2000)
The copy of the writing was to be given as law in every province that it be published unto all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.

 

[Chester]

Esther 3:15 KJV The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

 

[Deade]

Esther 4:1 (ASV)

Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

 

[Deade]

Esther 4:2 (ASV)

and he came even before the king’s gate: for none might enter within the king’s gate clothed with sackcloth.

 

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Esther 4:3 (AKJV)
And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.