Esther 5:13
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.
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- Phil 4:11-12 : 11 Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. 12 I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.
- 1 Kgs 21:4-6 : 4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread. 5 But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread? 6 And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.
- Esth 5:9 : 9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
- Job 15:20 : 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
- Job 18:4 : 4 He teareth himself in his anger: shall the earth be forsaken for thee? and shall the rock be removed out of his place?
- Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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- Esth 5:8-125 verses81%
8If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my requt, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.
9Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
10Neverthels Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zerh his wife.
11And Haman told them of the glory of his rich, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princ and servants of the king.
12Haman said moreover, Yea, ther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
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14Then said Zerh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
- Esth 6:10-145 verses79%
10Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.
11Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
12And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
13And Haman told Zerh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zerh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
14And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that ther had prepared.
- Esth 6:3-75 verses78%
3And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
4And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
5And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
7And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
- Esth 3:1-66 verses78%
1After the things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princ that were with him.
2And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.
3Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgrst thou the king's commandment?
4Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.
5And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
6And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to dtroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
- Esth 7:6-105 verses77%
6And ther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
7And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make requt for his life to ther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.
8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon ther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
9And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.
10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
- Esth 8:5-73 verses77%
5And said, If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his ey, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to dtroy the Jews which are in all the king's provinc:
6For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the dtruction of my kindred?
7Then the king Ahasuerus said unto ther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given ther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
- Esth 5:4-52 verses75%
4And ther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
5Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as ther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that ther had prepared.
- Esth 8:1-33 verses75%
1On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto ther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for ther had told what he was unto her.
2And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And ther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
3And ther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and bought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
- Esth 9:24-252 verses74%
24Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to dtroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to dtroy them;
25But when ther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- Esth 9:12-132 verses74%
12And the king said unto ther the queen, The Jews have slain and dtroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rt of the king's provinc? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy requt further? and it shall be done.
13Then said ther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
- Esth 4:6-72 verses74%
6So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king's gate.
7And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuri for the Jews, to dtroy them.
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21In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Terh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
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10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews' enemy.
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3For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the wealth of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.
- Esth 4:11-133 verses71%
11All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinc, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king the thirty days.
12And they told to Mordecai ther's words.
13Then Mordecai commanded to answer ther, Think not with thyself that thou shalt cape in the king's house, more than all the Jews.
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8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinc of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.
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1Now it came to pass on the third day, that ther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house.
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19And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai sat in the king's gate.