Esther 9:15

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The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed three hundred persons in Susa; but they did not touch the plunder.

Cross References

Esther 8:11

By these letters the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods

Esther 9:10

the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not touch the plunder.

Esther 9:12

The king said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed five hundred people and also the ten sons of Haman. What have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what further is your request? It shall be fulfilled.”

Esther 9:13

Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let the Jews who are in Susa be allowed tomorrow also to do according to this day's edict, and let the ten sons of Haman be hanged on the gallows.”

Esther 9:14

So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged.

Esther 9:16

Now the other Jews who were in the king's provinces also gathered to defend their lives, and gained relief from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

Esther 9:2

the Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who had sought their ruin; and no one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never leave you or forsake you.”