Esther 9:25

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:32

then hear in heaven, and act, and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing their conduct on their own heads and vindicating the righteous by rewarding them according to their righteousness.

Esther 3:6

But he thought it beneath him to kill only Mordecai. So, having been told who Mordecai’s people were, Haman plotted to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 7:10

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

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?”

Psalm 140:8

Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot. Selah

Psalm 140:9

Those who surround me lift up their heads; let the mischief of their lips overwhelm them!

Psalm 141:10

Let the wicked fall into their own nets, while I alone escape.

Psalm 7:16

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

Psalm 7:17

I will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness and sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

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 26:27

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

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the coils of their sin.

Isaiah 22:25

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will perish, for the Lord has spoken.”

Obadiah 1:15

For the day of the Lord is near against all the nations. As you have done, it shall be done to you; your deeds shall return on your own head.

Matthew 21:44

The one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls.”

1 Samuel 25:39

When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the case of Nabal’s insult to me and has kept back his servant from evil; the Lord has returned the evildoing of Nabal upon his own head.” Then David sent word to Abigail to make her his wife.