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Est 7:9 — And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman had made for Mordecai, who had spoken good for the king, standeth in the house of Haman. Then the king said, Hang him thereon.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

Harbonah		Est 1:10
Harbona		one of the chamberlains. Est 6:14; 2Ki 9:32
Behold		Est 5:14; Job 27:20-23; Psa 7:15,16; Psa 35:8; Psa 141:10; Pro 11:5,6
gallows		Heb. tree
who had spoken		Est 2:21-23; Est 6:2
Hang him thereon		Est 9:25; 1Sa 17:51; Psa 7:15,16; Psa 9:15,16; Psa 35:8; Psa 37:35,36; Psa 73:19; Pro 11:5,6; Dan 6:7,24

Correlating Passages

Harbonah

Est 1:10

On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Harbona

	Est 6:14	And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
	2Ki 9:32	And he lifted up his face to the window, and said, Who [is] on my side? who? And there looked out to him two [or] three eunuchs.

Behold

	Est 5:14	Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
	Job 27:20	Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.
	Job 27:21	The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
	Job 27:22	For [God] shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.
	Job 27:23	[Men] shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
	Psa 7:15	He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
	Psa 7:16	His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
	Psa 35:8	Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
	Psa 141:10	Let the wicked fall into their own nets, whilst that I withal escape.
	Pro 11:5	The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
	Pro 11:6	The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.

who had spoken

	Est 2:21	In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
	Est 2:22	And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told [it] unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king [thereof] in Mordecai's name.
	Est 2:23	And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
	Est 6:2	And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Hang him thereon

	Est 9:25	But when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
	1Sa 17:51	Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
	Psa 7:15	He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch [which] he made.
	Psa 7:16	His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
	Psa 9:15	The heathen are sunk down in the pit [that] they made: in the net which they hid is their own foot taken.
	Psa 9:16	The LORD is known [by] the judgment [which] he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.
	Psa 35:8	Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
	Psa 37:35	I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree.
	Psa 37:36	Yet he passed away, and, lo, he [was] not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.
	Psa 73:19	How are they [brought] into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
	Pro 11:5	The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
	Pro 11:6	The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in [their own] naughtiness.
	Dan 6:7	All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.
	Dan 6:24	And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast [them] into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

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