Esther 9:5
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.
King James Version
In Context
6And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Cross References
Nehemiah 9:24So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.
Psalms 18:34He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.
Psalms 149:6Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
2 Thessalonians 1:6Seeing it is a righteous thing with God to recompense tribulation to them that trouble you;
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 →