Esther 6:4

Modern English Version

So the king said, “Who is out in the courtyard?” Now Haman had just then entered from across the palace courtyard in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Cross References

Esther 4:11

“All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that whoever, whether man or woman, wishes to come to the king at the inner court but has not been summoned, there is one law—to put him to death—unless for some reason the king should hold out the golden scepter so that he might live. I, however, have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days.”

Esther 5:1

On the third day, Esther put on her royal apparel and positioned herself in the king’s palace courtyard so that she would be directly in line with the part of the king’s throne room where the king sat facing the entrance of the room on his royal throne in the royal hall.

Esther 5:14

Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends suggested to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits tall be constructed, and in the morning ask the king if Mordecai can be hanged on it. Then go merrily with the king to the banquet.” And the suggestion pleased Haman, so he had the gallows constructed.

Esther 6:3

So the king said, “What honor or dignity has been done for Mordecai as a result of this?” Then the king’s servants attending him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

Esther 6:5

The king’s attendants said to him, “Haman is waiting in the court.” So the king said, “Let him enter.”

Esther 7:9

Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in the king’s presence, said, “The gallows, fifty cubits high, which Haman had constructed for Mordecai (who had spoken good on behalf of the king), stands at the house of Haman.”

Job 5:13

He catches the wise in their own craftiness, and the scheme of the shrewd is swiftly stopped.

Psalm 2:4

He who sits in the heavens laughs; the Lord ridicules them.

Psalm 33:19

to deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.