Esther 7:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Esther 3:13

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.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued for their destruction, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, so that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 7:5

Then King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther, “Who is he, and where is he, who has presumed to do this?”

Esther 7:6

Esther said, “A foe and an enemy, this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.

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, their children, and their women, and to plunder their goods

Esther 8:6

For how can I bear to see the calamity that is coming on my people? Or how can I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”

Esther 9:25

but when Esther came before the king, he gave orders in writing that the wicked plot that he had devised against the Jews should come upon his own head and that he and his sons should be hung on the pole.

Daniel 6:2

and over them three administrators, one of whom was Daniel; to these the satraps gave account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

Joel 3:6

You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own 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 needy for a pair of sandals—

Luke 12:45

But if that slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the other slaves, men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”

Joshua 9:23

Now, therefore, you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me, and do not be afraid, for the one who seeks my life seeks your life; you will be safe with me.”