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Esther 5:13 KJV
Esther · chapter 5 · verse 13
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.Esther 5:13 · King James Version
Esther 5:13 in context
11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
12Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
13Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
14Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- availethshâvâhproperly, to levelH7737 →
- MordecaiMordᵉkayMordecai, an IsraeliteH4782 →
- sittingyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- king'smeleka kingH4428 →
- seerâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- JewYᵉhûwdîya Jehudite , or descendant of JehudahH3064 →
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This account here given of Haman is a comment upon that of Solomon, Pro 21:24. Proud and haughty scorner is his name that deals in proud wrath. Never did any man more answer that name than Haman, in whom pride and wrath had so much the ascendant. See him, I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-14