Esther 9:16 - Tree of Life Version

¹⁶ Meanwhile the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered together to protect themselves and to get relief from their enemies. They killed 75,000 of their enemies, but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ And the other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered to defend their lives and had relief and rest from their enemies and slew of them that hated them 75,000; but on the spoil they laid not their hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ And the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The Jews out in the royal provinces also joined together to defend their lives. They put to rest the troubles with their enemies and killed those who hated them. The total was seventy-five thousand dead, but the Jews didn’t lay a hand on anything their enemies owned.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ But the king was troubled, and all his servants consoled her. Alternate text from the Hebrew, verses -:

Esther 9:16 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 34:27

Jacob’s sons came upon the slain and plundered the city because they defiled their sister.

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 9:2

Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus in order to lay hands on those seeking their harm. No one was able to stand against them, for fear of them had fallen on all the peoples.

Psalm 149:7

to execute vengeance upon the nations and rebukes on the peoples,

Psalm 37:15

Their sword will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.