Esther 9:5

Thus the Iewes smote all their enemies with strokes of the sworde and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they woulde vnto those that hated them.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

4For Mordecai was great in the kings house, and the report of him went through all the prouinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

6And at Shushan the palace slewe the Iewes and destroyed fiue hundreth men,

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Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24So the children went in, and possessed the lande, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the lande, euen the Canaanites, and gauest them into their handes, with their Kings and the people of the lande, that they might do with them what they would.

Psalms 18:34He teacheth mine hands to fight: so that a bowe of brasse is broken with mine armes.

Psalms 20:7Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the Name of ye Lord our God.

Psalms 149:6Let the high Actes of God bee in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hands,

2 Thessalonians 1:6For 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 →

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