Haman Plans to Hang Mordecai

Esther 5

⁹ And Haman went out that day _h joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai _i in the king's gate, _j that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. ¹⁰ Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and _k his wife Zeresh. ¹¹ And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, _l the number of his sons, all the promotions with which _m the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king. ¹² Then Haman said, "Even Queen Esther let no one but me come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king. ¹³ Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting _i at the king's gate." ¹⁴ Then _k his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, _n "Let a gallows ₁ fifty cubits ₂ high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast." This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

1. Cross References
   1 Kings 8:66
   On the eighth day he sent the people away, and they blessed the king and went to their homes joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had shown to David his servant and to Israel his people.
   
2. Cross References
   Esther 2:19
   Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.
   
3. Cross References
   Esther 3:5
   And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow down or pay homage to him, Haman was filled with fury.
   
4. Cross References
   Esther 6:13
   And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not overcome him but will surely fall before him.
   
5. Cross References
   Esther 9:7 - 10
   And also killed Parshandatha and Dalphon and Aspatha
   
6. Cross References
   Esther 3:1
   After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him.
   
7. Cross References
   Esther 5:9
   And Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he neither rose nor trembled before him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
   
8. Cross References
   Esther 5:10
   Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home, and he sent and brought his friends and his wife Zeresh.
   
9. Cross References
   Esther 6:4
   And the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
   Esther 7:9 - 10
   Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, said, "Moreover, the gallows that Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing at Haman's house, fifty cubits high.
   Esther 8:7
   Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, "Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and they have hanged him on the gallows, because he intended to lay hands on the Jews.
   Esther 9:13
   And Esther said, "If it please the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict. And let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.
   Esther 9:25
   But when it came before the king, he gave orders in writing that his evil plan that he had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.