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The Darby Translation

Esther 6:5

And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman is standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Civil Service;   Mordecai;  

Dictionaries:

- Holman Bible Dictionary - Bigthan;   Esther;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Esther, Book of;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Ahasuerus;   Ṭarfon;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”
Hebrew Names Version
The king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. The king said, Let him come in.
King James Version
And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
English Standard Version
And the king's young men told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
New Century Version
The king's personal servants said, "Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Bring him in."
New English Translation
The king's attendants said to him, "It is Haman who is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him enter."
Amplified Bible
The king's servants said to him, "Look, Haman is standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
New American Standard Bible
So the king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Have him come in."
World English Bible
The king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. The king said, Let him come in.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Kings seruants said vnto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the King sayd, Let him come in.
Legacy Standard Bible
And the king's young men said to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
Berean Standard Bible
So the king's attendants answered him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." "Bring him in," ordered the king.
Contemporary English Version
The king's servants answered, "Your Majesty, it is Haman." "Have him come in," the king commanded.
Complete Jewish Bible
The king's servants told him, "It's Haman standing there in the courtyard." The king said, "Have him come in."
Easy-to-Read Version
The king's servants said, "Haman is standing in the courtyard." So the king said, "Bring him in."
George Lamsa Translation
So the kings servants said to him, Behold, Haman is standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Good News Translation
So the servants answered, "Haman is here, waiting to see you." "Show him in," said the king.
Lexham English Bible
And the king's servants said to him, "Look! Haman is standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Let him come."
Literal Translation
And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the kinges seruauntes saide vnto him: Beholde, Ama stodeth in the courte. The kynge saide: Let him come in.
American Standard Version
And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Bible in Basic English
And the king's servants said to him, See, Haman is waiting in the outer room. And the king said, Let him come in.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the kinges seruauntes saide vnto him: Beholde, Haman standeth in the court. And the king saide: let him come in.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the king's servants said unto him: 'Behold, Haman standeth in the court.' And the king said: 'Let him come in.'
King James Version (1611)
And the kings seruants said vnto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the King saide, Let him come in.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the king’s servants said, Behold, Aman stands in the court. And the king said, Call him.
English Revised Version
And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the children answeriden, Aaman stondith in the halle.
Update Bible Version
And the king's attendants said to him, Look, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
New King James Version
The king's servants said to him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
New Living Translation
So the attendants replied to the king, "Haman is out in the court." "Bring him in," the king ordered.
New Life Bible
The king's servants said to him, "See, Haman is standing in the garden." And the king said, "Let him come in."
New Revised Standard
So the king's servants told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the king's young men said unto him, Lo! Haman, standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The servants answered: Aman standeth in the court, and the king said: Let him come in.
Revised Standard Version
So the king's servants told him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
Young's Literal Translation
and the servants of the king say unto him, `Lo, Haman is standing in the court;' and the king saith, `Let him come in.'
THE MESSAGE
The king's servants said, "Haman is out there, waiting in the court." "Bring him in," said the king.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."

Contextual Overview

4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman is standing in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What is to be done with the man whom the king delights to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to me? 7 And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour, 8 let the royal apparel be brought with which the king arrays himself, and the horse that the king rides upon, and on the head of which the royal crown is set; 9 and let the apparel and horse be delivered into the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, and let them array the man whom the king delights to honour, and cause him to ride on the horse through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour! 10 And the king said to Haman, Make haste, take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast said. 11 And Haman took the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass when mankind began to multiply on the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
And Jehovah said, My Spirit shall not always plead with Man; for he indeed is flesh; but his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
Genesis 6:4
In those days were the giants on the earth, and also afterwards, when the sons of God had come in to the daughters of men, and they had borne [children] to them; these were the heroes, who of old were men of renown.
Genesis 6:9
This is the history of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect amongst his generations: Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every [sort] shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep [them] alive with thee: they shall be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowl after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of each shall go in to thee, to keep [them] alive.
Genesis 6:21
And take thou of all food that is eaten, and gather [it] to thee, that it may be for food for thee and for them.
Genesis 8:21
And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
And the people of Sodom were wicked, and great sinners before Jehovah.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to sweep away the drunken with the thirsty.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the king's servants said unto him, behold, Haman standeth in the court,.... In the outward court; for into the inward court none might enter without being called, for which he was waiting:

and the king said, let him come in; into his bedchamber; and it was of God, no doubt, that Haman should be on the spot at this very time, when the king was in the humour to do honour to Mordecai, and by him.


 
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