Esther 9:6

so much so that even in Susa they executed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, and their names are these:

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In The King James Version

And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

In Context

5And so the Jews struck their enemies like a great plague and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them,

7Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha

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Cross References

Job 27:14If his sons should happen to increase, they will be for the sword, and his grandsons will not be satisfied with bread.

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 →

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