The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Esther 6:13 (NIV)

and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.

His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!”

 

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Esther 6:14 (NIV)

While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

 

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Esther 7:1 (KJV)
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.

 

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Esther 7:2 (NKJV)

And on the second day, at the banquet of wine, the king again said to Esther, “What is your petition, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request, up to half the kingdom? It shall be done!”

 

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Esther 7:3 (NKJV)

Then Queen Esther answered and said, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request.

 

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Esther 7:4 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
for we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my peace, for the adversary is not worthy that the king be endamaged.'

 

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Esther 7:5 (NASB)
Then King Ahasuerus asked Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who would presume to do thus?"

 

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Esther 7:6 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
And Esther said: 'An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman.' Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

 

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Esther 7:7 (NKJV)

Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

 

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Esther 7:8 (NKJV)

When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?”

As the word left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

 

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Esther 7:9 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains that were before the king: 'Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman hath made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman.' And the king said: 'Hang him thereon.'

 

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Esther 7:10 (NKJV)

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.

 

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Esther 8:1 (NRSV)

On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews; and Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told what he was to her.

 

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Esther 8:2 (KJV)
And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.

 

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Esther 8:3 (KJV)
And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.

 

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Esther 8:5 (KJV)

And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinces:

 

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Esther 8:6 (KJV)

For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?

 

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Esther 8:4 (KJV)
Then the king held out the golden sceptre toward Esther. So Esther arose, and stood before the king,

Esther 8:7 (NASB)
So King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given the house of Haman to Esther, and him they have hanged on the gallows because he had stretched out his hands against the Jews.

 

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Esther 8:8 (NASB)

Now you write to the Jews as you see fit, in the king’s name, and seal it with the king’s signet ring; for a decree which is written in the name of the king and sealed with the king’s signet ring may not be revoked.”

 

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Esther 8:9 (NASB)

So the king’s scribes were called at that time in the third month (that is, the month Sivan), on the twenty-third day; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews, the satraps, the governors and the princes of the provinces which extended from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to every province according to its script, and to every people according to their language as well as to the Jews according to their script and their language.