1 Kings 21:7

21:7 His wife Jezebel said to him, “You are the king of Israel! ¹  Get up, eat some food, and have a good time. ²  I will get the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite for you.”

Esther 5:13-14

5:13 Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

5:14 Haman’s ³  wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Have a gallows seventy-five feet ⁴  high built, and in the morning tell the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it. Then go with the king to the banquet contented.” ⁵ 

It seemed like a good idea to Haman, so he had the gallows built.

Luke 12:32

12:32 “Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is well pleased ⁶  to give you the kingdom.

[21:7]  ¹ tn Heb “You, now, you are exercising kingship over Israel.”

[21:7]  ² tn Heb “so your heart [i.e., disposition] might be well.”

[5:14]  ³ tn Heb “his”; the referent (Haman) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[5:14]  ⁴ tn Heb “fifty cubits.” Assuming a standard length for the cubit of about 18 inches (45 cm), this would be about seventy-five feet (22.5 meters), which is a surprisingly tall height for the gallows. Perhaps the number assumes the gallows was built on a large supporting platform or a natural hill for visual effect, in which case the structure itself may have been considerably smaller. Cf. NCV “a seventy-five foot platform”; CEV “a tower built about seventy-five feet high.”

[5:14]  ⁵ tn Or “joyful”; NRSV “in good spirits”; TEV “happy.”

[12:32]  ⁶ tn Or perhaps, “your Father chooses.”