Esther 9:5

New Century Version

And, with their swords, the Jewish people defeated all their enemies, killing and destroying them. And they did what they wanted with those people who hated them.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24

So their children went into the land and took over. The Canaanites lived there, but you defeated them for our ancestors. You handed over to them the Canaanites, their kings, and the people of the land. Our ancestors could do what they wanted with them.

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 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 9:6

In the palace at Susa, they killed and destroyed five hundred men.

Psalm 92:12

But good people will grow like palm trees; they will be tall like the cedars of Lebanon.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, let their children starve, and let their enemies kill them with swords. Let their wives lose their children and husbands. Let the men from Judah be put to death and the young men be killed with swords in battle.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

God will do what is right. He will give trouble to those who trouble you.