Esther Chapter 3

• Esther 3:1
  Esther.
• Esther 3:2
  After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were ...
• Esther 3:3
  All the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai di...
• Esther 3:4
  Then the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s commandment?”
• Esther 3:5
  Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him, and he didn’t listen to them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai’s reason would stand; f...
• Esther 3:6
  When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
• Esther 3:7
  But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all ...
• Esther 3:8
  In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, an...
• Esther 3:9
  Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom, and th...
• Esther 3:10
  If it pleases the king, let it be written that they be destroyed; and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who are in cha...
• Esther 3:11
  The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
• Esther 3:12
  The king said to Haman, “The silver is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”
• Esther 3:13
  Then the king’s scribes were called in on the first month, on the thirteenth day of the month; and all that Haman commanded was written to the king’s ...
• Esther 3:14
  Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little childre...
• Esther 3:15
  A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that ...
• Esther 3:16
  The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; b...