Esther 9:15

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they slew three hundred men in Susa; but they laid no hands on the plunder.

Cross References

Esther 8:11

By these the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to slay, 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 the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they laid no hand on the plunder.

Esther 9:12

And the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the capital the Jews have slain five hundred men and also the ten sons of Haman. What then 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

And Esther said, “If it please 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 got relief from their enemies, and slew 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 Ahasu-erus to lay hands on such as sought their hurt. And no one could make a stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

1 Thessalonians 5:22

abstain from every form of evil.

Hebrews 13:5

Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.”