Esther 9:6

And in Shushan the capital the Yehudim slew and destroyed 500 men.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

In Context

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

7And Parshandata, Dalphon, Aspata,

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Cross References

Job 27:14If his banim be multiplied, it is for the cherev, 1 and his offspring shall not have lechem enough. 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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