Esther 9:15-18

The Jews Destroy Their Enemies

15 The Jews who were in Susa gathered also on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and they killed 300 men in Susa, but they laid no hands on the plunder.

16 e Now the rest of the Jews who were in the king's provinces also f gathered to defend their lives, and got relief from their enemies and killed 75,000 of those who hated them, but they laid no hands on the plunder. 17 This was g on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18 But the Jews who were in Susa gathered g on the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested h on the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness.

  1. Cross References
    Esther 9:2
    The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.
  2. Cross References
    Esther 9:2
    The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those who sought their harm. And no one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen on all peoples.
    Esther 8:11
    Saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to gather and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, and to plunder their goods.
  3. Cross References
    Esther 9:1
    Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.
  4. Cross References
    Esther 9:17
    This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.
  5. Cross References
    Esther 9:21
    Obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year.
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