Esther 3:13

Modern English Version

The letters were sent by mounted couriers into all the king’s provinces to cause the destruction, slaughter, and annihilation of all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and even to plunder their possessions.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:6

So couriers ran throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, which read: “Sons of Israel, return to the Lord of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel that He might turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the king of Assyria.

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to be annihilated. If only we had been sold as male and female slaves, I could have kept quiet, for that distress would not be sufficient to trouble the king.”

Esther 8:5

and said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the idea seems right before the king, and I have his approval, then let it be written to reverse the letters, devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.

Esther 9:1

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day, when the king’s edict and his decree were to be carried out on the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to have power over them, things were turned around. The Jews gained power over those who hated them.

Esther 9:10

These were the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, whom they killed, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:5

So the Jews struck all their enemies by sword, slaughtering and destroying them, and doing to those who hated them as they pleased.

Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

Isaiah 10:6

I will send him against an ungodly nation, and against the people of My wrath I will give him a command, to seize the plunder, to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Jeremiah 51:31

One courier will run to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to show the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end,

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

James 2:13

For he who has shown no mercy will have judgment without mercy, for mercy triumphs over judgment.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not have compassion on them but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”

1 Samuel 22:19

And Nob, the city of the priests, he struck with the edge of the sword. Both men and women, children and babies, oxen, donkeys, and sheep, he struck with the edge of the sword.