Esther 9:4

For Mordechai was gadol in the Bais HaMelech, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for haish Mordechai grew more and more powerful.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

3And all the nobles of the provinces, and the satraps, and the governors, and officials of HaMelech helped the Yehudim; because the pachad of Mordechai fell upon them.

5Thus the Yehudim struck all their oyvim with makkat cherev, slaughter, destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:27So Hashem was with Yehoshua; and his fame was noised throughout kol HaAretz.

2 Samuel 3:1Now there was long milchamah between the Bais Sha'ul and the Bais Dovid; but Dovid grew stronger and stronger, and the Bais Sha'ul grew weaker and weaker.

1 Chronicles 14:17And the shem (fame) of Dovid went out into all lands; and Hashem brought the pachad (terror) of him upon kol HaGoyim.

Psalms 18:43Then did I beat them small as the dust before the ruach; 1 I did empty them out as the dirt in the chutzot (streets). 1

Proverbs 4:18But the orach tzaddikim (path of the righteous) is as the bright light, 1 that shineth brighter and brighter unto the full day. 1

Zephaniah 3:19Hinei, at that time I will undo all that afflict thee; 1 and I will save her that is lame, 1 and gather her that was driven out; 1 and I will get them praise and fame 1 in every land of their boshet (shame). 1

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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