Devine Scripture

Esther 6:12

Esther chapter 6 · verse 12 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Context

v.11Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor.

v.12This passage

v.13And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

Cross references

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

  • 2 Samuel 15:30

    And David went up by the ascent of themount ofOlives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people that were with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

  • Psalms 131:1

    Jehovah, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty; Neither do I exercise myself in great matters, Or in things too wonderful for me.

  • 2 Samuel 17:23

    And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and gat him home, unto his city, and set his house in order, and hanged himself; and he died, and was buried in the sepulchre of his father.

  • Job 9:24

    The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it?

  • 2 Chronicles 26:20

    And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked upon him, and, behold, he was leprous in his forehead, and they thrust him out quickly from thence; yea, himself hasted also to go out, because Jehovah had smitten him.

  • Job 20:5

    That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?