Esther 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Then Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Common English Bible

¹² Afterward, Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, while Haman hurried home feeling great shame, his head covered.

Esther 6:12 Cross References

2 Samuel 15:30

But David went up the ascent of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he went, with his head covered and walking barefoot, and all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went.

Job 20:5

that the exulting of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?

1 Kings 21:4

Ahab went home resentful and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you my ancestral inheritance.” He lay down on his bed, turned away his face, and would not eat.

Job 9:24

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; he covers the eyes of its judges— if it is not he, who then is it?

Esther 7:8

When the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman had thrown himself on the couch where Esther was reclining, and the king said, “Will he even violate the queen in my presence, in my own house?” As the words left the mouth of the king, they covered Haman’s face.

Esther 2:19

When the virgins were being gathered together, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

2 Chronicles 26:20

When the chief priest Azariah, and all the priests, looked at him, he was diseased on his forehead. They hurried him out, and he himself hurried to get out, because the Lord had struck him.

1 Kings 20:43

The king of Israel set out toward home, resentful and sullen, and came to Samaria.

2 Samuel 17:23

When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself; he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.

1 Samuel 3:15

Samuel lay there until morning; then he opened the doors of the house of the Lord. Samuel was afraid to tell the vision to Eli.

Esther 6:11

So Haman took the robes and the horse and robed Mordecai and led him riding through the open square of the city, proclaiming, “Thus shall it be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor.”

1 Kings 21:6

He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it,’ but he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”