Esther 3:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, giving orders to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, children and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.

Cross References

Esther 9:10

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

2 Chronicles 30:6

So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

1 Samuel 15:3

Now go and attack Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have; do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”

James 2:13

For judgment will be without mercy to anyone who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.

Romans 3:15

“Their feet are swift to shed blood;

Jeremiah 51:31

One runner runs to meet another, and one messenger to meet another, to tell the king of Babylon that his city is taken from end to end:

Isaiah 10:6

Against a godless nation I send him, and against the people of my wrath I command him, to take spoil and seize plunder, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

Job 9:25

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

Esther 7:4

For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”

1 Samuel 22:19

Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep, he put to the sword.

Esther 8:5

She said, “If it pleases the king, and if I have won his favor, and if the thing seems right before the king, and I have his approval, let an order be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote giving orders to destroy the Jews who are in all the provinces of the king.

Esther 9:1

Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain power over them but that had been changed to a day when the Jews would gain power over their foes,

Esther 9:5

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