Esther 9:4

For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and as his power increased his fame spread throughout all the provinces.

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For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

In Context

3All the princes of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and they who attended to the king’s business, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

5The Jews put all their enemies to the sword and, with slaughter and destruction, they did what they wanted to those who hated them.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:27The Lord was with Joshua, and the fame of him spread all over the land.

Psalms 18:43From the strife of the peoples you saved me, you made me head of the nations, peoples I knew not did serve me.

Zephaniah 3:19I will destroy at that time all who afflict you. I will deliver the lame, and gather the outcast, I will make them an object of renown and fame in all the earth.

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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