Esther 9:10
And when they had slain them, they would not touch the spoils of their goods.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9And Phermesta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Jezatha.
11And presently the number of them that were killed in Susan was brought to the king.
Cross References
Genesis 34:27And when they were gone out, the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain; and plundered the city in revenge of the rape.
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Esther 5:11And he declared to them the greatness of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and with how great glory the king had advanced him above all his princes and servants.
Esther 7:6And Esther said: It is this Aman that is our adversary and most wicked enemy. Aman hearing this was forthwith astonished, not being able to bear the countenance of the king and of the queen.
Esther 9:15,15And on the fourteenth day of the month Adar the Jews gathered themselves together, and they killed in Susan three hundred men: but they took not their substance.
Job 27:13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of 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 →