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Esther 5:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, ‘Have them build a gallows twenty-three metres  tall.  Ask the king in the morning to hang Mordecai on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.’ The advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

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The king asked, ‘Who is in the court? ’ Now Haman was just entering the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.


Then his wife Jezebel said to him, ‘Now, exercise your royal power over Israel. Get up, eat some food, and be happy. For I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.’


Those who live on the earth will gloat  over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.


Their feet are swift to shed blood;


Although they know God’s just sentence #– #that those who practise such things deserve to die  ,  #– #they not only do them, but even applaud  , others who practise them.


For they can’t sleep unless they have done what is evil; they are robbed of sleep unless they make someone stumble.


but they set an ambush to kill themselves; they attack their own lives.


Still, there was no one like Ahab, who devoted himself to do what was evil in the Lord’s sight, because his wife Jezebel incited him.


Ahithophel replied to Absalom, ‘Sleep with your father’s concubines whom he left to take care of the palace.  When all Israel hears that you have become repulsive to your father, everyone with you will be encouraged.’





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