Esther 7:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For my people and I have been sold  to destruction, death, and annihilation.  If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves,  I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.’

Cross References

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.’

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again.  There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.’

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers  to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people #– #young and old, women and children #– #and plunder their possessions on a single day,  the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Esther 8:11

The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says: I will not relent from punishing Israel for three crimes, even four, because they sell a righteous person for silver and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks  to remove them far from their own territory.

Esther 7:6

Esther answered, ‘The adversary and enemy  is this evil Haman.’ Haman stood terrified  before the king and queen.

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery.  Some of our daughters are already enslaved,  but we are powerless  because our fields and vineyards belong to others.’

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life.  You will be safe with me.’

Joshua 9:23

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves #– #woodcutters and water-carriers for the house of my God.’

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, “My master is delaying his coming,”   and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Esther 7:5

King Ahasuerus spoke up and asked Queen Esther, ‘Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme? ’  ,

Esther 8:6

For how could I bear to see the disaster that would come on my people?  How could I bear to see the destruction of my relatives? ’

Esther 9:25

But when the matter was brought before the king,  he commanded by letter that the evil plan Haman had devised against the Jews return on his own head  and that he should be hanged with his sons on the gallows.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three administrators, including Daniel.  These satraps would be accountable to them so that the king would not be defrauded.