Esther 9:10
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the oppressor of the Jews, they slew; but they laid not their hands on the prey.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
9and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the fortress was brought before the king.
Cross References
Genesis 34:27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Exodus 20:5thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them; for I, Jehovah thy God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth [generation] of them that hate me,
Esther 5:11And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
Esther 7:6And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.
Esther 9:15And the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but they laid not their hand on the prey.
Job 27:13This is the portion of the wicked man with God, and the heritage of the violent, which they receive from the Almighty:
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 →