Esther 8:1 Cross References - NSB

¹ That day the king gave all the estate of Haman, the hater of the Jews, to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had made clear what he was to her.

¹⁴ The closest to the king were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media. They were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom.

⁷ And he had been a father to Hadassah who is Esther, the daughter of his father's brother: for she had no father or mother. When her father and mother were dead, Mordecai took her for his daughter. She was very beautiful.

¹⁵ When the time came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail, his father's brother, whom Mordecai had taken as his daughter, to go in to the king, she made request for nothing but what Hegai, the king's servant and keeper of the women, had given her. And all who saw her looked on Esther kindly.

⁶ Esther said: »Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman.« Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

¹⁶ »Though he heaps up silver like dust and clothes like piles of clay, ¹⁷ what he lays up the righteous will wear, and the innocent will divide his silver.

⁶ They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth. ⁷ No one can ever redeem (buy back) his brother or pay God a ransom for his life. ⁸ The price to be paid for him is so costly it can never be paid ⁹ so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction). ¹⁰ One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves. ¹² But mortals will not continue here with what they treasure. They are like animals that die. ¹³ This is the final outcome for fools and their followers who are delighted by what they say:

⁶ »Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

²² A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children. The wealth of the sinner is preserved for the righteous.

⁸ He who becomes wealthy through unfair loans and interest collects them for the one who pitys the poor.

¹⁸ I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me. ¹⁹ Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? But he will have power over all the work that I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This too is vanity.

²⁰ »But God said to him: ‘You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?’