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Esther 6:7

And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Prayer;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bigthan;   Esther;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Sathrabuzanes;   Shethar-Bozenai;   Sisinnes;   Tattenai;  

Encyclopedias:

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

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for June 30;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Haman told the king, “For the man the king wants to honor:
Hebrew Names Version
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
King James Version
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
English Standard Version
And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
New Century Version
So he answered the king, "This is what you could do for the man you want very much to honor.
New English Translation
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,
Amplified Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,
New American Standard Bible
Therefore Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,
World English Bible
Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Haman answered the King, The man whome the King would honour,
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Berean Standard Bible
And Haman told the king, "For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
Contemporary English Version
So he replied, "Your Majesty, if you wish to honor a man,
Complete Jewish Bible
So Haman answered the king, "For a man the king wants to honor,
Darby Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour,
Easy-to-Read Version
So Haman answered the king, "Do this for the man the king loves to honor:
George Lamsa Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Good News Translation
So he answered the king, "Have royal robes brought for this man—robes that you yourself wear. Have a royal ornament put on your own horse.
Lexham English Bible
So Haman said to the king, "For a man whom the king wishes to honor,
Literal Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Aman sayde vnto the kynge: Let the man vnto whom the kynge wolde be glad to do worshippe, be broughte hither,
American Standard Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,
Bible in Basic English
And Haman, answering the king, said, For the man whom the king has delight in honouring,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Haman aunswered the king: Let the man whom the king pleaseth to bring vnto worship, be brought hither,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Haman said unto the king: 'For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
King James Version (1611)
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and he said to the king, As for the man whom the king wishes to honour,
English Revised Version
And Haman said unto the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and he answeride, The man, whom the kyng couetith to onoure,
Webster's Bible Translation
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honor,
New King James Version
And Haman answered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
New Living Translation
So he replied, "If the king wishes to honor someone,
New Life Bible
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wants to honor,
New Revised Standard
So Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king wishes to honor,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Haman said unto the king, - As touching the man in whose honour, the king, delighteth,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Answered: The man whom the king desireth to honour,
Revised Standard Version
and Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
Young's Literal Translation
And Haman saith unto the king, `The man in whose honour the king hath delighted,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king desires to honor,

Contextual Overview

4 And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman came 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 attendants said to him, Look, Haman stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. 6 So Haman came in. And the king said to him, What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor? Now Haman said in his heart, Whom would the king delight to honor more than me? 7 And Haman said to the king, For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 let royal apparel be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set: 9 and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delights to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor. 10 Then the king said to Haman, Hurry, and take the apparel and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sits at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that you have spoken. 11 Then 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 it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

whom the king: etc. Heb. in whose honour the king delighteth, Esther 6:9, Esther 6:11

Reciprocal: Genesis 41:42 - his ring

Cross-References

Genesis 6:1
And it came to pass, when man began to multiply on the face of the ground, and daughters were born to them,
Genesis 6:2
that the sons of God saw the daughters of man that they were fair; and they took for themselves wives of all that they chose.
Genesis 6:3
And Yahweh said, My spirit shall not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh: and his days shall be 120 years.
Genesis 6:4
The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man, and they bore [children] to them: the same were the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown.
Genesis 6:20
Of the birds after their kind, and of the cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the ground after its kind, two of every sort shall come to you, to keep them alive.
Genesis 6:22
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so he did.
Psalms 37:20
But the wicked shall perish, And the enemies of Yahweh shall be as the fat of lambs: They shall consume; In smoke they shall consume away.
Proverbs 10:27
The fear of Yahweh prolongs days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
Proverbs 16:4
Yahweh has made everything for its own end; Yes, even the wicked for the day of evil.
Hosea 4:3
Therefore the land shall mourn, and every one that dwells therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens; yes, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Haman answered the king,.... At once, being very prompt to suggest the honours he hoped to have done to himself:

for the man whom the king delighteth to honour; let the following things be done.


 
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