Cross references

Esther 2:23

After 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.

Esther 2:23 BSB
  1. a Or the Book of the Annals or the Book of the Historical Events

Esther 2:23 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 0 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Genesis 40:19 (3 votes) and Genesis 40:22 (3 votes). 5 other verses point back to it. It links with 4 other books, from Genesis 40 to Malachi 3.

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  1. Within three days Pharaoh will lift off your head and hang you on a tree. Then the birds will eat the flesh of your body.”

  2. But Pharaoh hanged the chief baker, just as Joseph had described to them in his interpretation.

  3. And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

  4. If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree, you must not leave the body on the tree overnight, but you must be sure to bury him that day, because anyone who is hung on a tree is under God’s curse. You must not defile the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

  5. He hung the king of Ai on a tree until evening, and at sunset Joshua commanded that they take down the body from the tree and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And over it they raised a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day.

  6. His wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed. That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him. …

  7. So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

  8. At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

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