Esther 7:4

New Century Version

My people and I have been sold to be destroyed, to be killed and completely wiped out. If we had been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept quiet, because that would not be enough of a problem to bother the king.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

We are just like our fellow Jews, and our sons are like their sons. But we have to sell our sons and daughters as slaves. Some of our daughters have already been sold. But there is nothing we can do, because our fields and vineyards already belong to other people.”

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by messengers to all the king’s empire ordering them to destroy, kill, and completely wipe out all the Jewish people. That meant young and old, women and little children, too. It was to happen on a single day—the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which was Adar. And they could take everything the Jewish people owned.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let an order be given to destroy those people. Then I will pay seven hundred fifty thousand pounds of silver to those who do the king’s business, and they will put it into the royal treasury.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Xerxes asked Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he? Who has done such a thing?”

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “Our enemy and foe is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was filled with terror before the king and queen.

Esther 8:11

These were the king’s orders: The Jewish people in every city have the right to gather together to protect themselves. They may destroy, kill, and completely wipe out the army of any state or people who attack them. And they are to do the same to the women and children of that army. They may also take by force the property of their enemies.

Esther 8:6

I could not stand to see that terrible thing happen to my people. I could not stand to see my family killed.”

Esther 9:25

But when the king learned of the evil plan, he sent out written orders that the evil plans Haman had made against the Jewish people would be used against him. And those orders said that Haman and his sons should be hanged on the platform.

Daniel 6:2

He chose three men as supervisors over those governors, and Daniel was one of the supervisors. The supervisors were to ensure that the governors did not try to cheat the king.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks so that you could send them far from their land.

Amos 2:6

This is what the Lord says: “For the many crimes of Israel, I will punish them. For silver, they sell people who have done nothing wrong; they sell the poor to buy a pair of sandals.

Luke 12:45

But suppose the servant thinks to himself, ‘My master will not come back soon,’ and he begins to beat the other servants, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk.

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will send you back to Egypt in ships, even though I, Moses, said you would never go back to Egypt. And there you will try to sell yourselves as slaves to your enemies, but no one will buy you.

Joshua 9:23

Now, you will be placed under a curse to be our slaves. You will have to cut wood and carry water for the house of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid. The man who wants to kill you also wants to kill me. You will be safe with me.”