Esther 7:4

Tree of Life Version

For we have been sold, I and my people, for destruction, slaughter and annihilation. If we had simply been sold as male and female slaves, I would have remained silent, for such distress would not be worth disturbing the king.”

Cross References

Nehemiah 5:5

And now, though we share the same flesh as our brothers, and our children are just like their children, still we subject our sons and our daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved but our hands are tied since our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Esther 3:13

Dispatches were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, stating to destroy, slay, and annihilate all the Jews—from the youth to the elderly, both little children and women—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 3:9

If it pleases the king, let an edict be written to destroy them. I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out this business, to put it into the king’s treasuries.”

Esther 7:5

King Ahasuerus responded to Queen Esther, “Who is he? Where is the man that presumed to do this?”

Esther 7:6

Esther replied, “The man—the adversary and foe—is this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and queen.

Esther 8:11

The king granted the right for Jews in every city to assemble themselves and to protect themselves—to destroy, kill and annihilate any army of any people or province that might attack them and their women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

Esther 8:6

For how can I endure seeing the disaster that will fall on my people? How can I bear to see the destruction of my relatives?”

Esther 9:25

But when it came to the king’s attention, he issued a written edict that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. (

Daniel 6:2

It pleased Darius to appoint 120 satraps to rule throughout the whole kingdom

Amos 2:6

Thus says Adonai: “For three crimes of Israel even for four, I will not relent. For they sell the righteous for silver and the needy for a pair of shoes.

Luke 12:45

“But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking a long time to come,’ and he begins to beat the young slave boys and girls and to eat and drink and get drunk,

Deuteronomy 28:68

Adonai will bring you back to Egypt in ships, by the way that I said to you, ‘You will not see it again.’ There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as slaves and maids, but there will be no buyer.”

Joshua 9:23

Now therefore, you are cursed, and you will never cease to be servants, wood-choppers and water-carriers for the House of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me, and fear not; for the one who is seeking my life is seeking your life too—but with me you will be safe.”