Esther 9:5

And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and extermination; and they acted with those that hated them according to their pleasure.

Leeser Tanakh

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 throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.

6And in Shushan the capital the Jews slew and exterminated five hundred men.

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Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24And the children entered in and took possession of the land; and thou didst humble before them the inhabitants of the land, the Cana'anites, and gavest them up into their hands, with their kings, and the nations of the land, that they might do with them according to their pleasure.

Psalms 18:34(18:35) He teacheth my hands for the war, so that a brazen bow is bent by my arms.

Psalms 20:7(20:8) Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses; but we will invoke the name of the Lord our God.

Psalms 149:6The exalted praises of God are in their mouth, and a two-edged sword is in their hand;

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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