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the Week of Proper 11 / Ordinary 16
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Literal Standard Version

Esther 6:5

And the servants of the king say to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the court"; and the king says, "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."
Darby Translation
And the king's servants said to him, Behold, Haman is standing in the court. And the king said, Let 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

4And the king says, "Who [is] in the court?" And Haman has come into the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him. 5And the servants of the king say to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the court"; and the king says, "Let him come in."6And Haman comes in, and the king says to him, "What should [I] do with the man in whose honor the king has delighted?" And Haman says in his heart, "To whom does the king delight to do honor more than myself?" 7And Haman says to the king, "The man in whose honor the king has delighted, 8let them bring in royal clothing that the king has put on himself, and a horse on which the king has ridden, and that the royal crown be put on his head, 9and to give the clothing and the horse into the hand of a man of the heads of the king, the chiefs, and they have clothed the man in whose honor the king has delighted, and caused him to ride on the horse in a broad place of the city, and called before him: Thus it is done to the man in whose honor the king has delighted." 10And the king says to Haman, "Hurry, take the clothing and the horse, as you have spoken, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting in the gate of the king; there does not fall a thing of all that you have spoken." 11And Haman takes the clothing, and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and causes him to ride in a broad place of the city, and calls before him, "Thus it is done to the man in whose glory the king has delighted."

Bible Verse Review
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Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it comes to pass that mankind has begun to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters have been born to them,
Genesis 6:3
And YHWH says, "My Spirit does not strive in man for all time, for indeed, he [is] flesh, but his days have been one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
The giants were in the earth in those days, and even afterward, when sons of God come in to the daughters of men, and they have borne to them those who [were] the mighty from of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:9
These [are] the generations of Noah: Noah [is] a righteous man; he has been perfect among his generations; Noah has habitually walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
and of all that lives, of all flesh, you bring two from every [kind] into the Ark, to keep alive with you; they are male and female.
Genesis 6:20
From the bird after its kind, and from the livestock after its kind, [and] from every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every [kind] they come to you, to keep alive.
Genesis 6:21
And you, take for yourself from all food that is eaten; and you have gathered [it] to yourself, and it has been for you and for them for food."
Genesis 8:21
and YHWH smells the refreshing fragrance, and YHWH says to His heart, "I do not continue to disfavor the ground because of man anymore, though the imagination of the heart of man [is] evil from his youth; and I do not continue to strike all living anymore, as I have done;
Genesis 13:13
and the men of Sodom [are] evil, and sinners before YHWH exceedingly.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered 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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