Esther 9:6

Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these:

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:

7Pharsandatha, and Delphon, and Esphatha,

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Cross References

Job 27:14If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled 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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