Esther 9:25 Cross References
Esther 9:25
25: But when Esther came before the king, he issued a decree causing Haman's evil plot to backfire, and Haman and his sons were hanged on the gallows.
Psalms 7:16
- They make trouble, but it backfires on them. They plan violence for others, but it falls on their own heads.
Esther 7:5
- "Who would do such a thing?" King Xerxes demanded. "Who would dare touch you?"
- Esther replied, "This wicked Haman is our enemy." Haman grew pale with fright before the king and queen.
- Then the king jumped to his feet in a rage and went out into the palace garden. But Haman stayed behind to plead for his life with Queen Esther, for he knew that he was doomed.
- In despair he fell on the couch where Queen Esther was reclining, just as the king returned from the palace garden. "Will he even assault the queen right here in the palace, before my very eyes?" the king roared. And as soon as the king spoke, his attendants covered Haman's face, signaling his doom.
- Then Harbona, one of the king's eunuchs, said, "Haman has set up a gallows that stands seventy-five feet tall in his own courtyard. He intended to use it to hang Mordecai, the man who saved the king from assassination.Then hang Haman on it!" the king ordered.
Esther 9:13
- And Esther said, "If it please Your Majesty, give the Jews in Susa permission to do again tomorrow as they have done today, and have the bodies of Haman's ten sons hung from the gallows. "
- So the king agreed, and the decree was announced in Susa. They also hung the bodies of Haman's ten sons from the gallows.
Matthew 21:44
- Anyone who stumbles over that stone will be broken to pieces, and it will crush anyone on whom it falls. "
Psalms 109:17
- He loved to curse others; now you curse him. He never blessed others; now don't you bless him.
- Cursing is as much a part of him as his clothing, or as the water he drinks, or the rich food he eats.
Psalms 140:9
- Let my enemies be destroyed by the very evil they have planned for me.
Psalms 141:10
- Let the wicked fall into their own snares, but let me escape.