Devine Scripture

Esther 5:14

Esther chapter 5 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning 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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Then said Zeresh 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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning 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.

Context

v.13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.

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Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 9:15

    The nations are sunk down in the pit that they made: In the net which they hid is their own foot taken.

  • Psalms 7:13

    He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; He maketh his arrows fiery shafts.

  • 1 Kings 21:7

    And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

  • Mark 6:19

    And Herodias set herself against him, and desired to kill him; and she could not;

  • 2 Chronicles 22:3

    He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

  • Amos 6:4

    that lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;