Esther 3:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the officials who were with him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ AFTER THESE things, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite and advanced him and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.

Common English Bible

¹ Sometime later, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, Hammedatha the Agagite’s son, by promoting him above all the officials who worked with him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ In the days of Artaxerxes, who reigned from India to Ethiopia over one hundred twenty-seven provinces,

English Standard Version 2016

¹ After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.

Esther 3:1 Cross References

Genesis 41:40

You shall be over my house, and all my people shall order themselves as you command; only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

Genesis 41:55

When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph; what he says to you, do.”

Ezra 7:14

For you are sent by the king and his seven counselors to make inquiries about Judah and Jerusalem according to the law of your God, which is in your hand,

Esther 1:14

and those next to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven officials of Persia and Media who had access to the king and sat first in the kingdom):

Esther 3:10

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

Esther 5:11

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 ministers of the king.

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy, this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

Esther 8:3

Then Esther spoke again to the king; she fell at his feet, weeping and pleading with him to avert the evil design of Haman the Agagite and the plot that he had devised against the Jews.

Psalm 12:8

On every side the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among humankind.

Proverbs 29:2

When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Ecclesiastes 10:6

folly is set in many high places, and the rich sit in a low place.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three administrators, one of whom was Daniel; to these the satraps gave account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

Numbers 24:7

Water shall flow from his buckets, and his seed shall have abundant water; his king shall be higher than Agag, and his kingdom shall be exalted.

1 Samuel 15:33

Samuel said, “As your sword has made women childless, so your mother shall be childless among women.” And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal.

1 Samuel 15:8

He took King Agag of the Amalekites alive but utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.