Esther 5:13

But these things please me not, while I see Mardochaeus the Jew in the court.

LXX2012 (US English)

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 Aman said, The queen has called no one to the feast with the king but me, and I am invited to-morrow.

14And Zosara his wife and his friends said to him, Let there be a + 5:14 Gr. a tree cut. gallows made for you of fifty cubits, and in the morning do you speak to the king, and let Mardochaeus be hanged on the gallows: but do you go in to the feast with the king, and be merry. And the saying pleased Aman, and the gallows was prepared.

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:4And the king of Israel answered and said, As you have said, my lord, O king, I am yours, and all mine also.

Job 15:20All the life of the ungodly is spent in care, and the years granted to the oppressor are numbered.

Psalms 37:12While they pressed hard upon me that sought my soul: and they that sought my hurt spoke vanities, and devised deceits all the day. 1

Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the works that were done under the sun; and, behold, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.

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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