Esther 9:10
The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the adversary of the Jews, did they slay; but to the spoil did they not stretch forth their hand.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
9And Parmashtha, and Arissai, and Aridai, and Vayzatha,
11On that same day came the number of those that were slain in Shushan the capital before the king.
Cross References
Genesis 34:27The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and spoiled the city, because they had defiled their sister.
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not bow thyself down to them, nor serve them; for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Esther 5:11And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had made him great, and how he had advanced him above the princes and the servants of the king.
Esther 7:6And Esther said, An adversary, and inimical man, this wicked Haman. Then became Haman terrified before the king and the queen.
Esther 9:15And the Jews that were in Shushan assembled together also on the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and slew at Shushan three hundred men; but to the spoil they did not stretch forth their hand.
Job 27:13This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the portion of tyrants, which they shall 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 →