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Esther 2:23

WEB

23When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.

KJV

23And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.

BSB

23After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles [+] in the presence of the king.

FBV

23When the plot was investigated and found to be true, both men were impaled on poles.[+] This was recorded in the official Book of Records by order of the king.

Extra References

Genesis 40:19

19Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head from off you, and will hang you on a tree; and the birds will eat your flesh from off you.”

Esther 10:2

2Aren’t all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

Genesis 40:22

22but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.

Deuteronomy 21:22-23

22If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, 23his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God. Don’t defile your land which the LORD your God gives you for an inheritance.

Malachi 3:16

16Then those who feared the LORD spoke one with another; and the LORD listened and heard, and a book of memory was written before him for those who feared the LORD and who honored his name.

Esther 7:10

10So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Esther 5:14-2

Joshua 8:29

29He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening. At sundown, Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.