Esther 7:4
Esther · Old Testament · Chapter 7
“For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king’s damage.”Esther 7:4
What Does Esther 7:4 Mean?
Esther 7:4 is found in the book of Esther, chapter 7, verse 4 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Esther 7:4 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Esther 3:9“If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries.”Deuteronomy 28:68“And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.”Esther 3:13“And the letters were sent by posts into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.”Ecclesiastes 3:7“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;”Esther 8:6“For how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”Esther 8:11“Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,”Daniel 6:2“And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.”Esther 2:10“Esther had not shewed her people nor her kindred: for Mordecai had charged her that she should not shew it.”Genesis 37:26“And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?”Joshua 9:23“Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.”1 Samuel 22:23“Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.”Nehemiah 5:5“Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and, lo, we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants, and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already: neither is it in our power to redeem them; for other men have our lands and vineyards.”Esther 4:7“And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king’s treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.”Esther 7:6“And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.”Esther 8:3“And Esther spake yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.”Esther 9:10“The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.”Psalms 44:22“Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.”Jeremiah 25:10“Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.”Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is no more bread in the city.”Joel 3:6“The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their border.”
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