Est 3:8-11, 5:14, 7:9, Job 5:13, Psa 2:4, 33:19 | ESV | STEP | Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus , There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom . Their laws are different from those of every other people , and they do not keep the king’s laws , so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

a[Ezra 4:12, 13; Acts 16:20, 21]

c ch. 8:2; Gen. 41:42

d ver. 1

e ch. 7:6; 8:1; 9:10, 24

f[See ver. 10 above]

g ch. 6:4; 7:9, 10; [ch. 8:7; 9:13, 25]

j ch. 1:10

kSee ch. 5:14

m[ch. 2:22]

oCited 1 Cor. 3:19; [Ps. 9:15, 16]

p Ps. 11:4; 29:10; [Isa. 40:22]

q Ps. 37:13; 59:8; Job 22:19; Prov. 1:26

r[Acts 12:11]

s Ps. 37:19; Job 5:20

Esther 3:8-11

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^aTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.” 10 ^cSo the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman ^dthe Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^ethe enemy of the Jews. 11 And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

Esther 5:14

14 Then ^fhis wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, ^g“Let a gallows ^{▼▼Or stake; twice in this verse} fifty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

Esther 7:9

9 Then ^jHarbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, “Moreover, ^kthe gallows ^{▼▼Or stake; also verse 10} that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, ^mwhose word saved the king, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits ^{▼▼A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters} high.”

Job 5:13

13 He ^ocatches the wise in their own craftiness,
and the schemes of the wily are brought to a quick end.

Psalms 2:4

4 He who ^psits in the heavens ^qlaughs;
the Lord holds them in derision.

Psalms 33:19

19 that he may ^rdeliver their soul from death
and keep them alive in ^sfamine.