Esther 7:4 Cross References
Esther 7:4
4: For my people and I have been sold to those who would kill, slaughter, and annihilate us. If we had only been sold as slaves, I could remain quiet, for that would have been a matter too trivial to warrant disturbing the king."
Esther 3:9
- If it please Your Majesty, issue a decree that they be destroyed, and I will give 375 tons of silver to the government administrators so they can put it into the royal treasury."
Esther 3:13
- and sent by messengers into all the provinces of the empire. The letters decreed that all Jews--young and old, including women and children--must be killed, slaughtered, and annihilated on a single day. This was scheduled to happen nearly a year later on March 7. The property of the Jews would be given to those who killed them.
Deuteronomy 28:68
- Then the LORD will send you back to Egypt in ships, a journey I promised you would never again make. There you will offer to sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves, but no one will want to buy you."
Esther 8:11
- The king's decree gave the Jews in every city authority to unite to defend their lives. They were allowed to kill, slaughter, and annihilate anyone of any nationality or province who might attack them or their children and wives, and to take the property of their enemies.
Genesis 37:26
- Judah said to the others, "What can we gain by killing our brother? That would just give us a guilty conscience.
- Let's sell Joseph to those Ishmaelite traders. Let's not be responsible for his death; after all, he is our brother!" And his brothers agreed.
- So when the traders came by, his brothers pulled Joseph out of the pit and sold him for twenty pieces of silver, and the Ishmaelite traders took him along to Egypt.
Amos 2:6
- This is what the LORD says: "The people of Israel have sinned again and again, and I will not forget it. I will not let them go unpunished any longer! They have perverted justice by selling honest people for silver and poor people for a pair of sandals.
Joel 3:6
- You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, who took them far from their homeland.
Psalms 44:22
- For your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
- Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Get up! Do not reject us forever.
Nehemiah 5:5
- We belong to the same family, and our children are just like theirs. Yet we must sell our children into slavery just to get enough money to live. We have already sold some of our daughters, and we are helpless to do anything about it, for our fields and vineyards are already mortgaged to others."
Esther 4:7
- Mordecai told him the whole story and told him how much money Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury for the destruction of the Jews.
- Mordecai gave Hathach a copy of the decree issued in Susa that called for the death of all Jews, and he asked Hathach to show it to Esther. He also asked Hathach to explain it to her and to urge her to go to the king to beg for mercy and plead for her people.
Joshua 9:23
- May you be cursed! From now on you will chop wood and carry water for the house of my God."
1 Samuel 22:23
- Stay here with me, and I will protect you with my own life, for the same person wants to kill us both."
Esther 7:6
- Esther replied, "This wicked Haman is our enemy." Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.