Esther 9:2

In every town in Zerk-sees' country where Jewish people lived, groups of men got together to fight anyone that tried to kill them. When they did that, all the people that were not Jewish were frightened of the Jews. They knew they couldn't win.

Barkly (portions)

In The King James Version

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 could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

In Context

1King Zerk-sees (Xerxes) had made a law that let the Jewish people fight back. The 13th day of the last month of the year was the day that the enemies of the Jews had planned to kill all the Jewish people. That day came, and so the Jews followed King Zerk-sees' new law to fight back. And that is what happened.

3All the leaders, government workers and important people in all the different nations in the big country of Persia were frightened of More-dek-eye (Mordecai). And so they helped the Jewish people too.

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Cross References

Esther 8:11This is what was written on the law papers that had the king's name on it. “The Jewish people in every town are allowed to get a group of fighting men together so that they can keep all their Jewish people safe. If anyone tries to fight them, the Jewish fighters are allowed to kill those men and make it look like they were never alive. And they are allowed to kill the wives and children of those men too. The Jewish people are allowed to grab everything that belongs to the people that try to kill them.

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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