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New King James Version

Esther 6:5

The king's servants said to him, "Haman is there, 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."
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 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 So the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 The king's servants said to him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in." 6 So Haman came in, and the king asked him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman thought in his heart, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" 7 And Haman answered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head. 9 Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him: "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'|" 10 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king's gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken." 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
Now it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:3
And the Lord said, "My Spirit shall not strive [fn] with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years."
Genesis 6:4
There were giants on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.
Genesis 6:9
This is the genealogy of Noah. Noah was a just man, perfect in his generations. Noah walked with God.
Genesis 6:19
And of every living thing of all flesh you shall bring two of every sort into the ark, to keep them alive with you; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to you to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:21
And you shall take for yourself of all food that is eaten, and you shall gather it to yourself; and it shall be food for you and for them."
Genesis 8:21
And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, "I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, although the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Genesis 13:13
But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD.
Deuteronomy 29:19
and so it may not happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he blesses himself in his heart, saying, 'I shall have peace, even though I follow the dictates [fn] of my heart'--as though the drunkard could be included with the sober.

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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