The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 5:7 (ERV)
Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;

 

[Deade]

Esther 5:8 (ESV)

If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.”

 

[Deade]

Esther 5:9 (ESV)

And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 5:10 (ERV)
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife.

 

[Deade]

Esther 5:11 (ESV)

And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, the number of his sons, all the promotions with which the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.

 

[Deade]

Esther 5:12 (ESV)

Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king.

 

[CharliRenee]

Esther 5:13 ESV:
Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 5:14 (NET)
Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows seventy-five feet high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented." It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:1 (ESV)

On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:2 (ESV)

And it was found written how Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:3 (Jubilee 2000 Bible)
And the king said, What honour and dignity has been done unto Mordecai for this? Then the king's servants who ministered unto him answered, Nothing has been done for him.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:4 (KJV)
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:5 (NKJV)

The king’s servants said to him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”

And the king said, “Let him come in.”

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:6 (NKJV)

So Haman came in, and the king asked him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?”

Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:7 (KJV)
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:8 (RSV)

let royal robes be brought, which the king has worn, and the horse which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown is set;

 

[Deade]

Esther 6:9 (RSV)

and let the robes and the horse be handed over to one of the king’s most noble princes; let him array the man whom the king delights to honor, and let him conduct the man on horseback through the open square of the city, proclaiming before him: ‘Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’”

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:10 (King James 2000 Bible)
Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:11 (King James 2000 Bible)
Then took Haman the robes and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delights to honor.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Esther 6:12 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.