Esther 3:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, ‘There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom,  keeping themselves separate. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws.  It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:27

The Lord will scatter you among the peoples,  and you will be reduced to a few survivors  among the nations where the Lord your God will drive you.

Leviticus 26:33

But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins.

James 1:1

James,  a servant of God  and of the Lord Jesus Christ: To the twelve tribes  dispersed abroad.  , Greetings.

Acts 28:22

But we want to hear what your views are, since we know that people everywhere are speaking against this sect.’

Acts 24:5

For we have found this man to be a plague,  an agitator  among all the Jews throughout the Roman world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

John 7:35

Then the Jews  said to one another, ‘Where does he intend to go that we won’t find him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Jewish people dispersed  , among the Greeks  and teach the Greeks, does he?

Zechariah 7:14

I scattered them with a windstorm over all the nations that had not known them, and the land was left desolate behind them, with no one coming or going. They turned a pleasant land into a desolation.’

Ezekiel 11:16

‘Therefore say, “This is what the Lord God says: Though I sent them far away among the nations and scattered them among the countries, yet for a little while I have been a sanctuary for them  in the countries where they have gone.”

Ezekiel 6:8

‘Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword.

Jeremiah 50:17

Israel is a stray lamb, chased by lions. The first who devoured him was the king of Assyria; the last who crushed his bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

Nehemiah 1:8

Please remember what you commanded your servant Moses: ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples.

Deuteronomy 32:26

‘I would have said: I will cut them to pieces and blot out the memory of them from mankind,

Deuteronomy 30:3

then he will restore your fortunes,  , have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you.

1 Peter 1:1

Peter,  an apostle of Jesus Christ: To those chosen, living as exiles  dispersed  abroad in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,  chosen

Esther 3:9

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorising their destruction, and I will pay 345 tonnes of silver to  the officials to deposit in the royal treasury.’

Esther 4:1

When Mordecai learned all that had occurred,  he tore his clothes,  put on sackcloth and ashes,  went into the middle of the city, and cried loudly and bitterly.

Jeremiah 33:24

‘Have you not noticed what these people have said? They say, “The Lord has rejected the two families he had chosen.”  My people are treated with contempt and no longer regarded as a nation among them.

Daniel 3:8

Some Chaldeans  took this occasion to come forward and maliciously accuse  , the Jews.

Daniel 6:13

Then they replied to the king, ‘Daniel, one of the Judean exiles, has ignored you,  the king, and the edict you signed, for he prays three times a day.’

Numbers 23:9

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs, and I watch them from the hills. There is a people living alone; it does not consider itself among the nations.

Ezra 4:6

At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus,  the people who were already in the land  wrote an accusation against the residents of Judah and Jerusalem.

Daniel 6:14

As soon as the king heard this, he was very displeased; he set his mind on rescuing Daniel  and made every effort until sunset to deliver him.