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Esther 3:1
After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.

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1 Samuel 15:8
He took Agag, king of the Amalekites, prisoner, and put all the people to the sword without mercy.

Numbers 24:7
Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

1 Samuel 15:3
Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Exodus 17:16
For he said, The Lord has taken his oath that there will be war with Amalek from generation to generation.

Deuteronomy 25:19
So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

1 Samuel 15:32
Then Samuel said, Make Agag, the king of the Amalekites, come here to me. And Agag came to him shaking with fear. And Agag said, Truly the pain of death is past.

1 Kings 20:34
And Ben-hadad said to him, The towns my father took from your father I will give back; and you may make streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria. And as for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

1 Chronicles 4:43
And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.

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Esther 5:11
And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Psalms 12:8
The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

Proverbs 3:35
The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.

Proverbs 19:10
Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.

Proverbs 30:22
A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

Ecclesiastes 10:6
The foolish are placed in high positions, but men of wealth are kept low.

Ecclesiastes 10:7
I have seen servants on horses, and rulers walking on the earth as servants.

Esther 7:6
And Esther said, Our hater and attacker is this evil Haman. Then Haman was full of fear before the king and the queen.

Esther 7:10
So Haman was put to death by hanging him on the pillar he had made for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath became less.

Proverbs 28:12
When the upright do well, there is great glory; but when evil-doers are lifted up, men do not let themselves be seen.

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Esther 3:2
And all the king's servants who were in the king's house went down to the earth before Haman and gave him honour: for so the king had given orders. But Mordecai did not go down before him or give him honour.

Esther 3:3
Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?

Esther 3:4
Now when they had said this to him day after day and he gave no attention, they let Haman have news of it, to see if Mordecai's behaviour would be overlooked: for he had said to them that he was a Jew.

Esther 3:5
And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath.

Esther 3:6
But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Esther 3:7
In the first month, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur (that is chance) before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar.

Esther 9:24
Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for their destruction, attempting to get a decision by Pur (that is, chance) with a view to putting an end to them and cutting them off;

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Daniel 6:2
And over them were three chief rulers, of whom Daniel was one; and the captains were to be responsible to the chief rulers, so that the king might undergo no loss.

Daniel 6:3
Then this Daniel did his work better than the chief rulers and the captains, because there was a special spirit in him; and it was the king's purpose to put him over all the kingdom.

Esther 1:14
And second only to him were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven rulers of Persia and Media, who were friends of the king, and had the first places in the kingdom:)

Daniel 2:48
Then the king made Daniel great, and gave him offerings in great number, and made him ruler over all the land of Babylon, and chief over all the wise men of Babylon.

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2 Kings 25:28
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.

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