Esther 9:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Thus the Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they desired to those who hated them.

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  • Ps 18:34-40 : 34 He teaches my hands to war, so that a bow of bronze is broken by my arms. 35 You have also given me the shield of your salvation: your right hand has held me up, and your gentleness has made me great. 36 You have enlarged my steps under me, so that my feet did not slip. 37 I have pursued my enemies, and overtaken them: neither did I turn back till they were consumed. 38 I have wounded them so that they were not able to rise: they have fallen under my feet. 39 For you have girded me with strength for the battle: you have subdued under me those who rose up against me. 40 You have also given me the necks of my enemies; that I might destroy those who hate me.
  • Ps 18:47-48 : 47 It is God who avenges me, and subdues the people under me. 48 He delivers me from my enemies: yes, you lift me up above those who rise up against me: you have delivered me from the violent man.
  • Ps 20:7-8 : 7 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. 8 They are brought down and fallen: but we are risen, and stand upright.
  • Ps 149:6-9 : 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a double-edged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute on them the written judgment: this honor have all his saints. Praise the LORD.
  • Jer 18:21 : 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
  • 2 Thess 1:6 : 6 Since it is a righteous thing with God to repay with tribulation those who trouble you;

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  • Esth 9:6
    85%

    6And in Shushan the palace the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

  • Esth 9:9-17
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    79%

    9And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

    10The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, they killed; but on the spoil they did not lay their hands.

    11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.

    12And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? and it shall be granted to you: or what is your further request? and it shall be done.

    13Then said Esther, If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.

    14And the king commanded it to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

    15For the Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but on the plunder they did not lay their hands.

    16But the other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their foes, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder,

    17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

  • Esth 9:1-3
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    78%

    1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and his decree came to be executed, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned around, so the Jews had power over those who hated them;)

    2The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who sought their harm: and no one could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.

    3And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

  • Esth 8:11
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    11By these letters, the king granted the Jews in every city the right to gather and protect themselves, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, along with their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions.

  • Esth 9:23-26
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    76%

    23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them;

    24Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

    25But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    26Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, for all the words of this letter, and what they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come to them,

  • Esth 3:6
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    6And he thought it scornful to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had shown him the people of Mordecai. Therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

  • Esth 3:13
    72%

    13And the letters were sent by couriers into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to take the spoil of them as a prey.

  • Ps 83:9
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    9Do to them as to the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kishon:

  • Esth 8:13
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    13The copy of the document for a decree to be proclaimed in every province was published to all peoples, that the Jews should be prepared on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

  • Ezek 9:7
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    7And he said to them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go forth. And they went forth, and killed in the city.

  • Jer 18:21
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    21Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

  • Judg 20:35
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    35And the LORD struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men; all these drew the sword.

  • Jer 41:3
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    3Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, even with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, and the men of war.

  • Esth 8:7
    71%

    7Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and he has been hanged on the gallows, because he laid his hand on the Jews.

  • Neh 4:11-12
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    71%

    11And our adversaries said, They shall not know or see anything until we come in among them and kill them, and cause the work to cease.

    12And when the Jews who lived near them came, they said to us ten times, From whatever place you turn, they will be upon us.

  • Ezek 9:5
    71%

    5And to the others he said in my hearing, Go after him through the city and strike: let not your eye spare, neither have any pity:

  • Deut 20:13
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    13And when the LORD your God has delivered it into your hands, you shall strike every male of it with the edge of the sword:

  • Esth 3:9-10
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    9If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

    10And the king took his ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

  • Judg 1:8
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    8Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem, and taken it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

  • Esth 8:16-17
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    16The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

    17And in every province and every city, wherever the king's command and his decree came, the Jews had joy, gladness, a feast, and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews, for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.

  • Josh 10:35
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    35They took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the people who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.

  • Deut 13:15
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    15You shall surely strike the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.

  • Esth 9:19-20
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    19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another.

    20And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

  • Ezek 35:5
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    5Because you have had a perpetual hatred, and have shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

  • Josh 11:11-12
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    11And they destroyed all the souls that were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was none left breathing: and he burned Hazor with fire.

    12And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, Joshua took, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.

  • Amos 9:4
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    4And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them; and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

  • Isa 13:15
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    15Everyone who is found will be thrust through; and everyone who is joined to them will fall by the sword.

  • Lam 3:66
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    66Pursue and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

  • Matt 22:6
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    6And the rest seized his servants, mistreated them spitefully, and killed them.

  • Judg 20:25
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    25And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.

  • Esth 4:7
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    7And Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, and of the sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.