Esther 7:4

Modern English Version

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.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as the flesh of our countrymen. Our children are like their children, but we are subjugating our sons and our daughters as servants. Behold, some of our daughters are in bondage already, and we are powerless to do anything because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Esther 3:13

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.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, may it be written that they are to be destroyed, and may there be ten thousand talents of silver deposited into the king’s treasuries so that I may distribute it to the hands of those doing the work.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Ahasuerus answered and demanded of Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who would dare presume in his heart to do so?”

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “This wicked Haman is the adversary and enemy!” Then Haman was seized with terror before the king and the queen.

Esther 8:11

What the king granted to the Jews in each and every city was the right to assemble and to defend their lives by annihilating, slaying, and destroying any army of any people or any province that would assault them, the little children and women included, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 8:6

For how am I able to watch the evil that will unfold against my people? How can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Esther 9:25

But when Esther came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was first, so that the officials might give accounts to them and the king not suffer loss.

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their border.

Amos 2:6

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of sandals.

Luke 12:45

But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the house servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will bring you into Egypt again with ships, by the way by which I spoke to you, “You will not see it ever again.” And there you will be sold to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.

Joshua 9:23

Therefore now you are cursed, and you will always be slaves, cutting wood and carrying water for the house of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Remain with me. Do not fear, for the one who seeks my life seeks your life, but you are safe with me.”