Esther 7 Cross References - CAB

¹ So the king and Haman went in to drink with the queen. ² And the king said to Esther at the banquet on the second day, What is it, Queen Esther? And what is your request, and what is your petition? And it shall be done for you, up to half of my kingdom. ³ And she answered and said, If I have found favor in the sight of the king, let my life be granted to my petition, and my people to my request. ⁴ For both I and my people have been sold for destruction, and pillage, and slavery; both we and our children as bondmen and bondwomen. And I consented not to it, for the slanderer is not worthy of the king's palace. ⁵ And the king said, Who is this that has dared to do this thing? ⁶ And Esther said, the adversary is Haman, this wicked man. Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen. ⁷ And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. And Haman began to plead with the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case. ⁸ And the king returned from the garden; and Haman had fallen upon the bed, begging the queen. And the king said, Will you even force my wife in my house? And when Haman heard it, his countenance changed. ⁹ And Harbonah, one of the eunuchs, said to the king, Behold, Haman has also prepared a gallows for Mordecai, who spoke concerning the king, and a gallows of fifty cubits high has been set up on Haman's premises. And the king said, Let him be hanged on it! ¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows that had been prepared for Mordecai; and then the king's wrath was appeased.

³³ And Isaac was amazed with very great amazement, and said, Who then is it that has procured venison for me and brought it to me? And I have eaten all of it before you came, and I have blessed him, and he shall be blessed.

²⁶ And Judah said to his brothers, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood? ²⁷ Come, let us sell him to these Ishmaelites, but let not our hands be upon him, because he is our brother and our flesh; and his brothers listened. ²⁸ And the men, the merchants of Midian, went by, and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of gold; and they brought Joseph down into Egypt.

⁶⁸ And the Lord shall bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way of which I said, You shall not see it again; and you shall be sold there to your enemies as male and female slaves, and no one shall buy you.

²³ And now you are cursed. There shall not fail of you a slave, or a woodcutter, or a water carrier to me and my God.

⁷ And Sampson said to them, Though you may have dealt thus with her, verily I will be avenged of you, and afterwards I will cease.

⁵¹ And David ran, and stood upon him, and took his sword, and killed him, and cut off his head. And the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, and they fled.

⁷ If he shall say thus, Well, — then all is safe for your servant: but if he shall answer harshly to you, know that evil is determined by him.

⁹ And Jonathan said, Far be it from you! For if I surely know that evil is determined by my father to come upon you, although it should not be against your cities, I will tell you.

²³ Dwell with me; fear not, for wherever I shall seek a place of safety for my life, I will also seek a place for your life, for you are safely guarded while you are with me.

^{13 (24:14)} As the old proverb says, Transgression will proceed from the wicked ones; but my hand shall not be upon you.

¹⁷ And now consider what you will do; for mischief is determined against our lord and against his house; and he is a vile character, and one cannot speak to him.

³¹ And he said to his servants, I know that the kings of Israel are merciful kings: let us now put sackcloth upon our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and let us go forth to the king of Israel, if by any means he will save our souls alive.

¹³ And the king sent yet again a captain and his fifty. And the third captain of fifty came, and knelt on his knees before Elijah, and entreated him, and spoke to him and said, O man of God, let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your eyes.

³² And he lifted up his face toward the window, and saw her, and said, Who are you? Come down with me. And two eunuchs looked down towards him.

⁵ And now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet behold, we are reducing our sons and our daughters to slavery, and some of our daughters are enslaved; and there is no power of our hands, for our fields and our vineyards belong to the nobles.

¹⁶ And it came to pass, when all our enemies heard of it, that all the nations round about us feared, and great alarm fell upon them, and they knew that it was of our God that this work should be finished.

⁵ when the days of the marriage feast were completed, the king made a banquet for the nations who were present in the city six days, in the court of the king's house, ⁶ which was adorned with hangings of fine linen and flax on cords of fine linen and purple, fastened to golden and silver studs, on pillars of Parian marble and stone. There were golden and silver couches on a pavement of emerald stone, and of pearl, and of Parian stone, and open-worked coverings variously flowered, having roses worked round about;

¹⁰ Now on the seventh day the king, being merry, told Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Zethar, Abagtha, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs, servants of King Artaxerxes,

¹² But Queen Vashti hearkened not to him to come with the chamberlains, so the king was grieved and angered.

¹ And after this the king's anger was pacified, and he no more made mention of Vashti, bearing in mind what she had said, and how he had condemned her.

²¹ And two of the king's eunuchs, the chiefs of the bodyguard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill King Artaxerxes. ²² And the matter became known to Mordecai, and he made it known to Esther, and she declared to the king the matter of the conspiracy. ²³ And the king examined the two eunuchs, and hanged them. And the king gave orders to make a note for a memorial in the royal records of the good offices of Mordecai, as a commendation.

⁹ If it seems good to the king, let him make a decree to destroy them, and I will remit into the king's treasury ten thousand talents of silver. ¹⁰ And the king took off his ring, and gave it into the hands of Haman, to seal the decrees against the Jews.

¹³ And the message was sent by posts throughout the kingdom of Artaxerxes, to utterly destroy the race of the Jews on the first day of the twelfth month, which is Adar, and to plunder their goods. And the following is the copy of the letter: The great King Artaxerxes writes thus to the rulers and inferior governors of a hundred and twenty-seven provinces, from India even to Ethiopia, who hold authority under him. Ruling over many nations, and having obtained dominion over the whole world, I was minded, (not elated by the confidence of power but ever conducting myself with great moderation and with gentleness) to make the lives of my subjects continually tranquil, desiring both to maintain the kingdom quite and orderly to its utmost limits, and to restore the peace desired by all men. But when I had inquired of my counselors how this should be brought to pass, Haman, who excels in sound judgment among us, and has been manifestly well inclined without wavering and with unshaken fidelity, and has obtained the second post in the kingdom, informed us that a certain ill-disposed people is mixed up with all the tribes throughout the world, opposed in their laws to every other nation, and continually neglecting the commands of the kings, so that the united government blamelessly administered by us is not quietly established. Having then conceived that this nation alone of all others is continually set in opposition to every man, introducing as a change a foreign code of laws, and injuriously plotting to accomplish the worst of evils against our interests, and against the happy establishment of the monarchy; we have accordingly appointed those who are signified to you in the letters written by Haman, who is set over the public affairs and is our second governor, to utterly destroy them all with their wives and children by the swords of the enemies, without pitying or sparing any, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month (which is Adar) of the present year; that the people aforetime and now ill-disposed to us having been violently consigned to death in one day, may hereafter secure to us continually a well- constituted and quiet state of affairs.

¹⁵ And the business was hastened, and that at Susa. And the king and Haman began to drink, but the city was troubled.

⁷ And Mordecai showed him what was done, and the promise which Haman had made the king of ten thousand talents to be paid into the treasury, that he might destroy the Jews. ⁸ And he gave him the copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to show to Esther. And told him to command her to go in and make supplication to the king, and to beg him for the people, remembering, he said, the days of your low estate, how you were nursed by my hand — because Haman, who holds the next place to the king, has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death!

⁸ And he gave him the copy of the writing that was published in Susa concerning their destruction, to show to Esther. And told him to command her to go in and make supplication to the king, and to beg him for the people, remembering, he said, the days of your low estate, how you were nursed by my hand — because Haman, who holds the next place to the king, has spoken against us for death. Call upon the Lord, and speak to the king concerning us, to deliver us from death!

³ And the king said, What do you wish, Esther? And what is your request? Ask even to the half of my kingdom, and it shall be yours.

⁶ And at the banquet the king said to Esther, What is your request, Queen Esther? Speak, and you shall have all that you require.

⁸ if I have found favor in the sight of the king, let the king and Haman come again tomorrow to the feast which I shall prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do the same.

¹⁴ And Zeresh his wife and his friends said to him, Let there be a gallows made for you of fifty cubits, and in the morning speak to the king, and let Mordecai be hanged on the gallows. But go in to the feast with the king, and be merry. And the saying pleased Haman, and the gallows was prepared.

² And he found the records written concerning Mordecai, how he had told the king concerning the two eunuchs of the king, when they were keeping guard, and sought to lay hands on Artaxerxes.

¹² And Mordecai returned to the palace. But Haman went home mourning, and covered his head.

¹⁴ While they were yet speaking, the eunuchs arrived, and hastened to bring Haman to the banquet which Esther had prepared.

⁶ And Esther said, the adversary is Haman, this wicked man. Then Haman was troubled before the king and the queen. ⁷ And the king rose up from the banquet to go into the garden. And Haman began to plead with the queen; for he saw that he was in an evil case.

¹¹ In it he charged them to use their own laws in every city, and to help each other, and to treat their adversaries, and those who attacked them, as they pleased,

¹² And the king said to Esther, The Jews have slain five hundred men in the city Susa. And what have they done in the rest of the country? What then is your petition, that it may be done for you?

²⁵ also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai. But all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

⁴ And the devil answered and said to the Lord, Skin for skin! All that a man has he will give as a ransom for his life.

²⁴ For they are delivered into the hands of the unrighteous man: He covers the faces of the judges of the earth: but if it is not He, who else could it be?

²¹ And his terror is in his ears: just when he seems to be at peace, his overthrow will come. ²² Let him not trust that he shall return from darkness, for he has been already made over to the power of the sword.

⁵ But the light of the ungodly shall be quenched, and their flame shall not go up. ⁶ His light shall be darkness in his habitation, and his lamp shall be put out with him. ⁷ Let the meanest of men spoil his goods, and let his counsel deceive him. ⁸ His foot also has been caught in a snare, and let it be entangled in a net. ⁹ And let snares come upon him: he shall strengthen those that thirst for his destruction. ¹⁰ His snare is hid in the earth, and that which shall take him is by the path. ¹¹ Let pains destroy him round about, and let many enemies come about him, ¹² vex him with distressing hunger: and a signal destruction has been prepared for him.

²⁰ Pains have come upon him as water, and darkness has carried him away by night. ²¹ And a burning wind shall catch him, and he shall depart, and it shall utterly drive him out of his place. ²² And God shall cast trouble upon him, and not spare: he flees desperately from out of His hand. ²³ He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

¹⁵ He has opened a pit, and dug it up, and he shall fall into the ditch which he has made. ¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁶ His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.

¹⁵ The heathen are caught in the destruction which they planned: in the very snare which they hid is their foot taken. ¹⁶ The Lord is known as executing judgments: the sinner is taken in the works of his hands. Pause.

² When evildoers drew near against me to eat up my flesh, my persecutors and my enemies, they fainted and fell.

⁸ Let a snare which they know not come upon them; and the net which they hid take them; and let them fall into the very same snare.

³⁵ I saw the ungodly very highly exalting himself, and lifting himself up like the cedars of Lebanon. ³⁶ Yet I passed by, and lo! He was not; and I sought him, but his place was not found.

²² For Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter. ²³ Awake, why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, and do not cast us off forever.

⁵ They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men. ⁶ Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness. ⁷ Their injustice shall go forth as out of fatness; they have fulfilled their intention. ⁸ They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness; they have uttered unrighteousness loftily. ⁹ They have set their mouth against heaven, and their tongue has gone through upon the earth.

¹⁷ until I go into the sanctuary of God, and so understand the latter end. ¹⁸ Surely You have appointed judgments to them because of their crafty dealings; You have cast them down when they were lifted up. ¹⁹ How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed; they have perished because of their iniquity.

¹⁹ How have they become desolate! Suddenly they have failed; they have perished because of their iniquity. ²⁰ As the dream of one awakening, O Lord, in Your city You will despise their image.

¹⁰ The sinner shall see and be angry, he shall gnash his teeth, and consume away; the desire of the sinner shall perish.

⁶ Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and let there be prosperity to them that love you. ⁷ Let peace, I pray, be within your host, and prosperity in your palaces. ⁸ For the sake of my brethren and my neighbors, I have indeed spoken peace concerning you. ⁹ Because of the house of the Lord our God, I have diligently sought your good.

¹⁹ Oh that You would slay the wicked, O God. Depart from me, you men of blood! ²⁰ For you will say concerning their thoughts, that they shall take your cities in vain. ²¹ Have I not hated them, O Lord, that hate You? And have I not wasted away because of Your enemies? ²² I have hated them with perfect hatred; they were counted as my enemies.

¹⁰ Sinners shall fall by their own net: I am alone until I shall escape.

⁵ Righteousness traces out blameless paths, but ungodliness encounters unjust dealing. ⁶ The righteousness of upright men delivers them, but transgressors are caught in their own destruction.

¹⁹ Evil men shall fall before the good, and the ungodly shall attend at the gates of the righteous.

¹⁴ The anger of a king is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify him.

¹² The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion, but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.

²⁴ He that says of the ungodly, He is righteous, shall be cursed by peoples, and hateful among the nations. ²⁵ But they that reprove him shall appear more excellent, and blessing shall come upon them;

⁸ If you should see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter; for there is a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones over them.

⁴ My heart wanders, and transgression overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.

¹⁷ Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,

²³ And kings shall be your nursing fathers, and their princesses your nurses, they shall bow down to you on the face of the earth, and shall lick up the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am the Lord, and they that wait on Me shall not be ashamed.

¹⁴ And the sons of them that afflicted you, and of them that provoked you, shall come to you in fear; and you shall be called Zion, the city of the Holy One of Israel.

²⁶ Then you shall say to them, I brought my supplication before the presence of the king, that he would not send me back into the house of Jonathan, that I should die there.

¹³ And My wrath and My anger shall be accomplished upon them: and you shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in My jealousy, when I have accomplished My anger upon them.

¹⁹ Then Nebuchadnezzar was filled with wrath, and the form of his countenance was changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego. And he gave orders to heat the furnace seven times more than usual, until it should burn to the uttermost.

⁵ In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote in front of the lamp on the plaster of the wall of the king's house: and the king saw the knuckles of the hand that wrote. ⁶ Then the king's countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, and the joints of his hips were loosed, and his knees knocked one another.

⁷ All who preside over your kingdom, captains and satraps, chiefs and local governors, have taken counsel together, to establish by a royal statute, and to confirm a decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except for you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions.

²⁴ And the king commanded, and they brought the men that had accused Daniel, and they were cast into the den of lions, they, their children, and their wives. And they did not reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them, and utterly broke to pieces all their bones.

⁶ and you have sold the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem to the children of the Greeks, that you might expel them from their coasts.

⁶ Thus says the Lord; for three sins of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for sandals,

⁸ And He cried out and spoke to me, saying, Behold, these go out to the land of the north, and they have quieted My anger in the land of the north.

²⁴ Until now you have asked nothing in My name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.

³ But Peter said, "Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart for you to lie to the Holy Spirit, and for you to keep back for yourself from the price of the land?

¹³ But those who are outside God will judge. Therefore "put away from yourselves the evil person."

⁸ And then the lawless one will be unveiled, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth, and will destroy by the brightness of His coming,

⁹ Behold, I will give those of the synagogue of Satan, those who say they are Jews and are not, but they are lying—behold, I will compel them to come and bow down at your feet, and they shall know that I have loved you.