Esther 8:6
Esther · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“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 8:6
What Does Esther 8:6 Mean?
Esther 8:6 is found in the book of Esther, chapter 8, verse 6 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 15 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Key themes in this passage include Suffering.
Cross-References (15)
These passages are connected to Esther 8:6 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Romans 9:3“For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:”Esther 7:4“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.”Genesis 44:34“For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.”Romans 10:1“Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.”Genesis 21:16“And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and wept.”Joshua 2:12“Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:”Romans 9:2“That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.”Nehemiah 2:3“And said unto the king, Let the king live for ever: why should not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?”Esther 4:8“Also he gave him the copy of the writing of the decree that was given at Shushan to destroy them, to shew it unto Esther, and to declare it unto her, and to charge her that she should go in unto the king, to make supplication unto him, and to make request before him for her people.”Esther 9:1“Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)”Jeremiah 4:19“My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.”Jeremiah 9:1“Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”Jeremiah 39:6“Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.”Luke 19:41“And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it,”Joshua 2:18“Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father’s household, home unto thee.”
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