Esther 5:13

Yet all this is of no avail to me so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12And Haman said, Yea, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to-morrow also I am invited to her with the king.

14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak to the king that Mordecai may be hanged on it: then go in merrily with the king to the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:4And Ahab came into his house sullen and vexed because of the word that Naboth the Jizreelite had spoken to him; for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he lay down on his bed, and turned away his face, and ate no bread.

Job 15:20All his days the wicked man is tormented, and numbered years are allotted to the violent.

Psalms 37:12The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Matthew Henry on Esther 5:10-14

Haman's Joy and Chagrin; Haman's Mediated Revenge. ( b. c. 510.) 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. 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife. 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted… Read the whole commentary →

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