Esther 5:14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him: 'Let a gallows be made of 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.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.'
Cross References
2 Samuel 13:3But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother; and Jonadab was a very subtle man.
1 Kings 21:7And 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.'
2 Chronicles 22:3He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
Esther 6:4And the king said: 'Who is in the court?' — Now Haman was come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. —
Psalms 7:13(7-14) He hath also prepared for him the weapons of death, yea, His arrows which He made sharp.
Psalms 37:14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow; to cast down the poor and needy, to slay such as are upright in the way;
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 →