Cross references
Esther 5:8
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
Esther 5:8 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 16:9 (5 votes) and Esther 7:3 (4 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 3 other books, from Nehemiah 2 to Amos 6.
Which verses does Esther 5:8 point to?
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- Proverbs 16:95 votes
A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.
- Esther 7:34 votes
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- Esther 6:1–143 votes
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him. And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. …
- Esther 8:53 votes
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
Which verses point to Esther 5:8?
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