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Esther 9:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

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.

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In every province and every city where the king’s command and edict reached, gladness and joy took place among the Jews. There was a celebration and a holiday.  , And many of the ethnic groups of the land professed themselves to be Jews because fear of the Jews  had overcome them.


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.


Band together,  peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken.


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


For it was the Lord’s intention to harden their hearts,  so that they would engage Israel in battle, be completely destroyed without mercy, and be annihilated, just as the Lord had commanded Moses.


and said to them, ‘I know that the Lord has given you this land  and that the terror of you has fallen on us,  and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.  ,


But King Sihon of Heshbon would not let us travel through his land, for the Lord your God had made his spirit stubborn and his heart obstinate in order to hand him over to you, as has now taken place.


‘I will cause the people ahead of you to feel terror  and will throw into confusion  all the nations you come to. I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you in retreat.


When they set out, a terror from God came over the cities around them, and they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.





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