Esther 9:25 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.”
Esther 9:25 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Esther 9:25 in 6 Bible Translations
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Esther 9:25 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.”
Esther 9:25 — World English Bible
Esther 9:25 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. ”
Esther 9:25 — American Standard Version
Esther 9:25 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“and in her coming in before the king, he said with the letter, `Let his evil device that he devised against the Jews turn back upon his own head,' and they have hanged him and his sons on the tree,”
Esther 9:25 — Young's Literal Translation
Esther 9:25 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“and when [Esther] came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head; and they hanged him and his sons on the gallows. ”
Esther 9:25 — Darby Translation
Esther 9:25 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“And when she came before the King, he commanded by letters, Let this wicked deuise (which he imagined against the Iewes) turne vpon his owne head, and let them hang him and his sonnes on the tree.”
Esther 9:25 — Geneva Bible
Esther 9:25 in Context — Esther 9
23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them,
27 The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
What Does Esther 9:25 Mean?
Esther 9:25 is a verse from the Book of Esther, part of the Old Testament. It appears in Esther chapter 9. Use The Living Sword's word-by-word study mode to explore every word in the original Hebrew and Aramaic.
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