Esther 5:8 Cross References
Esther 5:8
8: If Your Majesty is pleased with me and wants to grant my request, please come with Haman tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for you. Then tomorrow I will explain what this is all about."
Esther 7:3
- And so Queen Esther replied, "If Your Majesty is pleased with me and wants to grant my request, my petition is that my life and the lives of my people will be spared.
Esther 6:1
- That night the king had trouble sleeping, so he ordered an attendant to bring the historical records of his kingdom so they could be read to him.
- In those records he discovered an account of how Mordecai had exposed the plot of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the door to the king's private quarters. They had plotted to assassinate the king.
- "What reward or recognition did we ever give Mordecai for this?" the king asked. His attendants replied, "Nothing has been done."
- "Who is that in the outer court?" the king inquired. Now, as it happened, Haman had just arrived in the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai from the gallows he had prepared.
- So the attendants replied to the king, "Haman is out there.Bring him in," the king ordered.
Proverbs 16:9
- We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.
Esther 8:5
- and said, "If Your Majesty is pleased with me and if he thinks it is right, send out a decree reversing Haman's orders to destroy the Jews throughout all the provinces of the king.