Esther 9:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:24

So the descendants went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them into their hands, with their kings and the peoples of the land, to do with them as they pleased.

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 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 9:6

In the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred people.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Jeremiah 18:21

Therefore give their children over to famine; hurl them out to the power of the sword; let their wives become childless and widowed. May their men meet death by pestilence, their youths be slain by the sword in battle.

2 Thessalonians 1:6

For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you