Esther 9:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Esth 3:15 : 15 The couriers went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Shushan was perplexed.

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  • Esth 9:5
    85%

    5Thus 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.

  • Esth 9:9-19
    11 verses
    83%

    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.

    18But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth day; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

    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.

  • Esth 9:1-2
    2 verses
    74%

    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.

  • Esth 9:7
    73%

    7And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,

  • Esth 8:11
    73%

    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 3:6
    70%

    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 9:23-26
    4 verses
    70%

    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,

  • Judg 20:35
    69%

    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.

  • Esth 3:13
    69%

    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.

  • 2 Chr 13:17
    68%

    17And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

  • Esth 3:9
    68%

    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.

  • Judg 20:25
    67%

    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.

  • Ezek 9:6-7
    2 verses
    67%

    6Utterly slay old and young, both maidens, and little children, and women: but do not come near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began with the elders who were before the house.

    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.

  • Esth 8:7
    67%

    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.

  • Josh 6:21
    67%

    21And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

  • Neh 4:11-12
    2 verses
    67%

    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.

  • Judg 20:39
    66%

    39And when the men of Israel retired in the battle, Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.

  • Judg 20:45-46
    2 verses
    66%

    45And they turned and fled toward the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon; and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

    46So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

  • Jer 41:3
    66%

    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 4:7
    66%

    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.

  • Esth 1:2
    66%

    2In those days, when King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,

  • Ezra 1:9
    66%

    9And this is the number of them: thirty basins of gold, a thousand basins of silver, twenty-nine knives,

  • Esth 8:13
    66%

    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.

  • Esth 2:5
    66%

    5Now in Shushan the palace there was a certain Jew, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite;

  • Esth 8:5
    65%

    5And said, If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter is right before the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king's provinces.

  • 2 Sam 24:9
    65%

    9And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to the king: and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword; and the men of Judah were five hundred thousand.

  • Esth 8:16-17
    2 verses
    65%

    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.

  • Judg 20:21
    65%

    21And the children of Benjamin came out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites that day twenty-two thousand men.