Esther 8:1

Modern English Version

On that day King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the house of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. Mordecai came before the king because Esther disclosed who he was to her.

Cross References

Esther 1:14

Those nearest him were Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memukan. They were the seven princes of Persia and Media and the king’s closest confidants who met with the king and held the highest rank in the kingdom.

Esther 2:15

When the turn came for Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what the king’s eunuch Hegai, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther obtained favor in the sight of all who saw her.

Esther 2:7

He was the guardian of Hadassah, that is Esther (who was his uncle’s daughter), because she had neither father nor mother. The young woman was lovely to look at and beautiful in form. When her father and mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “This wicked Haman is the adversary and enemy!” Then Haman was seized with terror before the king and the queen.

Esther 8:7

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows because he threatened violence against the Jews.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his sons’ children, but the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 28:8

He who increases his wealth by usury and extortion gathers it for him who has pity on the poor.

Luke 12:20

“But God said to him, ‘You fool! This night your soul will be required of you. Then whose will those things be which you have provided?’