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Esther 9:15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar  and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not seize any plunder.

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They killed these ten sons  of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.  However, they did not seize  any plunder.


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.


Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for he himself has said, I will never leave you or abandon you.   ,


Stay away  from every kind of evil.


The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces assembled, defended themselves, and gained relief from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand  of those who hated them,  but they did not seize any plunder.


Esther answered, ‘If it pleases the king, may the Jews who are in Susa also have tomorrow  to carry out today’s law,  and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons  be hung on the gallows.’


In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces  the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.  Not a single person could withstand them; fear of them  fell on every nationality.


The king said to Queen Esther, ‘In the fortress of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Whatever you ask will be given to you. Whatever you seek will also be done.’


The king gave the orders for this to be done, so a law was announced in Susa, and they hung the bodies of Haman’s ten sons.





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