Esther 9:3
For the chiefs of the satraps, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mardochaeus lay upon them.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
2In that day the adversaries of the Jews perished: for no one resisted, through fear of them.
4-5 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
Cross References
Esther 3:2And all in the palace did him obeisance, for so the king had given orders to do: but Mardochaeus did not do him obeisance.
Esther 8:5And Esther said, If it seem good to you, and I have found favor in your sight, let an order be sent that the letters sent by Aman may be reversed, that were written for the destruction of the Jews, who are in your kingdom.
Esther 8:17in every city and province wherever the ordinance was published: wherever the proclamation took place, the Jews had joy and gladness, feasting and mirth: and many of the Gentiles were circumcised, and became Jews, for fear of the Jews.
Daniel 6:1And it pleased Darius, and he set over the kingdom one hundred and twenty satraps, to be in all his kingdom;
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 →