I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
Esther 9:14 - Revised Standard Version CI So the king commanded this to be done; a decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman's ten sons. American Standard Version (1901) And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. Common English Bible The king ordered that this be done, and the law became public in Susa. They impaled the ten sons of Haman just as she said. Catholic Public Domain Version For you, my lord, are great and wonderful, and your face is full of grace." English Standard Version 2016 So the king commanded this to be done. A decree was issued in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. |
I make a decree that any one of the people of Israel or their priests or Levites in my kingdom, who freely offers to go to Jerusalem, may go with you.
And the king said, “Hang him on that.” So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the anger of the king abated.
Then said Harbona, one of the eunuchs in attendance on the king, “Moreover, the gallows which Haman has prepared for Mordecai, whose word saved the king, is standing in Haman's house, fifty cubits high.”
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.”
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.
The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
Then he looked on Amalek, and took up his discourse, and said, “Amalek was the first of the nations, but in the end he shall come to destruction.”
Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed be every one who hangs on a tree” —