Esther 9:5

And the Jews smite among all their enemies — a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction — and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,

Young's Literal Translation

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 great [is] Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.

6and in Shushan the palace have the Jews slain and destroyed five hundred men;

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Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24'And the sons come in, and possess the land, and Thou humblest before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and givest them into their hand, and their kings, and the peoples of the land, to do with them according to their pleasure.

Psalms 18:34Teaching my hands for battle, And a bow of brass was brought down by my arms.

Psalms 20:7Some of chariots, and some of horses, And we of the name of Jehovah our God Make mention.

Psalms 149:6The exaltation of God [is] in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

2 Thessalonians 1:6since [it is] a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you — trouble,

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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