Esther 9:5

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

Darby Translation

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 his fame went forth throughout the provinces; for the man Mordecai became continually greater.

6And in Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24And the children went in and possessed the land; and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, both their kings and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

Psalms 18:34Who teacheth my hands to war, and mine arms bend a bow of brass;

Psalms 20:7Some make mention of chariots, and some of horses, but we of the name of Jehovah our God.

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

2 Thessalonians 1:6if at least [it is a] righteous thing with God to render tribulation to those that trouble 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 →

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