Esther 5:14

His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.

Cross References (21)

  • Esther 6:4 (6)

    “Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang

  • Esther 7:9–10 (5)

    Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He h

  • Psalms 37:32 (5)

    Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,

  • 1 Kings 21:7 (5)

    But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get

  • Psalms 37:14 (5)

    The wicked have drawn the sword and bent the bow to bring down the poor and needy, to slay those whose ways are upright.

  • Psalms 7:13–16 (3)

    He has prepared His deadly weapons; He ordains His arrows with fire.

  • Acts 23:14–15 (3)

    They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have bound ourselves with a solemn oath not to eat anything unti

  • 2 Chronicles 22:3–4 (2)

    Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.

  • Romans 1:32 (2)

    Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to d

  • Revelation 11:10 (2)

    And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophe

  • Mark 6:19–24 (2)

    So Herodias held a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she had been unable,

  • 1 Kings 21:25 (2)

    (Surely there was never one like Ahab, who sold himself to do evil in the sight of the LORD, incited by his wife Jezebel

  • Amos 6:4–6 (2)

    You lie on beds inlaid with ivory, and lounge upon your couches. You dine on lambs from the flock and calves from the st

  • Proverbs 4:16 (2)

    For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

  • Mark 14:10–11 (2)

    Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.

  • 2 Samuel 13:3–5 (2)

    Now Amnon had a friend named Jonadab, the son of David’s brother Shimeah. Jonadab was a very shrewd man,

  • Romans 3:15 (2)

    “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

  • Esther 3:8–15 (2)

    Then Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province

  • Psalms 9:15 (2)

    The nations have fallen into a pit of their making; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

  • Proverbs 1:18 (2)

    But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

  • 2 Samuel 16:21 (2)

    Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel h