Esther 9:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Genesis 34:27

And the other sons of Jacob came upon the slain and plundered the city because their sister had been defiled.

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 9:2

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

Psalm 149:7

to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.