Esther 9:25

also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mardochaeus: but all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

In Context

24showing how Aman the son of Amadathes the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast + 9:24 Gr. lot. lots to destroy them utterly;

26Therefore these days were called Phrurae, because of the lots; (for in their language they are called Phrurae;) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.

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Cross References

1 Samuel 25:39And David heard it + 25:39 Heb. and Alex. insert 'that Nabal was dead. and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant + 25:39 Or, from the hand of wicked men. from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigaia, to take her to himself for a wife.

Esther 7:5And the king said, Who is this that has dared to do this thing?

Esther 9:13And Esther said to the king, let it be granted to the Jews so to treat them tomorrow as to hand the ten sons of Aman.

Psalms 7:17I will give thanks to the Lord according to his righteousness; I will sing to the name of the Lord most high.

Matthew Henry on Esther 9:21-32

The Feast of Purim. ( b. c. 509.) 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and… Read the whole commentary →

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