Esther 7:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ So they hung Haman on the pole that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king’s wrath pacified.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ So they impaled Haman on the very pole that he had set up for Mordecai, and the king’s anger went away.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ "Remember," he said, "the days of your lowliness, how you were nurtured as if in my hand, because Haman, who is second after the king, has spoken against us to death.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the wrath of the king abated.

Esther 7:10 Cross References

Genesis 40:22

but the chief baker he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Esther 2:1

After these things, when the anger of King Ahasuerus had abated, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what had been decreed against her.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a pole fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hung on it; then go with the king to the banquet in good spirits.” This advice pleased Haman, and he had the pole made.

Esther 7:7

The king rose from the feast in wrath and went into the palace garden, but Haman stayed to beg his life from Queen Esther, for he saw that the king had determined to destroy him.

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 8:7

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “See, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hung him on the pole because he plotted to kill the Jews.

Esther 9:14

So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hung.

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Job 18:8

For they are thrust into a net by their own feet, and they walk into a pitfall.

Job 20:8

They will fly away like a dream and not be found; they will be chased away like a vision of the night.

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 7:16

Their mischief returns upon their own heads, and on their own heads their violence descends.

Psalm 94:23

He will repay them for their iniquity and wipe them out for their wickedness; the Lord our God will wipe them out.

Proverbs 11:27

Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to the one who searches for it.

Proverbs 11:8

The righteous are delivered from trouble, and the wicked come into it instead.

Proverbs 26:27

Whoever digs a pit will fall into it, and a stone will come back on the one who starts it rolling.

Jeremiah 34:17

Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by granting a release to your neighbors and friends; I am going to grant a release to you, says the Lord—a release to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

Ezekiel 5:13

“My anger shall spend itself, and I will vent my fury on them and satisfy myself, and they shall know that I, the Lord, have spoken in my jealousy when I spend my fury on them.

Daniel 6:24

The king gave a command, and those who had maliciously accused Daniel were brought and thrown into the den of lions—they, their children, and their wives. Before they reached the bottom of the den, the lions overpowered them and broke all their bones in pieces.

Daniel 6:25

Then King Darius wrote to all peoples and nations of every language throughout the whole world: “May you have abundant prosperity!

Zechariah 6:8

Then he cried out to me, “See, those who go toward the north country have set my spirit at rest in the north country.”

Judges 15:7

Samson said to them, “If this is what you do, I swear I will not stop until I have taken revenge on you.”