Esther 9:5

So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

In Context

4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

6And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.

Read all of Esther 9

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.

Psalms 18:34\18:33\He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.

Psalms 20:7\20:6\Now am I certain that the Lord gives salvation to his king; he will give him an answer from his holy heaven with the strength of salvation in his right hand.

Psalms 149:6Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;

2 Thessalonians 1:6For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,

Matthew Henry on Esther 9:2-20

The Jews Avenged. ( b. c. 509.) 1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) 2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Esther 9:5