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OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 14

Esther 5:14

World English Bible Updated

Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits† high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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Esther 5:14 in context

Esther 5:11–14

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Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

12

Haman also said, “Yes, Esther the queen let no man come in with the king to the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.

13

Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

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Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows be made fifty cubits† high, and in the morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it. Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet.” This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.

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  1. A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimeters.

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