Esther Reveals Haman's Plot

Esther 6

14 While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried to bring Haman b to the feast that Esther had prepared.

Esther 7

1 So the king and Haman went in to feast with Queen Esther. 2 And on the second day, as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king again said to Esther, c "What is your wish, Queen Esther? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? d Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled." 3 Then Queen Esther answered, e "If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be granted me for my wish, and my people for my request. 4 f For we have been sold, I and my people, g to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king." 5 Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, "Who is he, and where is he, who has dared 1 to do this?" 6 And Esther said, h "A foe and enemy! This wicked Haman!" Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

  1. Cross References
    Esther 5:8
    If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.
  2. Cross References
    Esther 5:6
    And as they were drinking wine after the feast, the king said to Esther, "What is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled.
    Esther 9:12
    And the king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed 500 men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your wish? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.
  3. Cross References
    Esther 5:3
    And the king said to her, "What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.
  4. Cross References
    Esther 5:8
    If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my wish and fulfill my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast that I will prepare for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.
  5. Cross References
    Esther 3:9
    If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.
    Esther 4:7
    And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.
  6. Cross References
    Esther 3:13
    Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
    Esther 8:11
    Saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods.
  7. Cross References
    Esther 3:10
    So the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.
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