Esther 9:14 KJV — MannaFest

Esther 9:14

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

KJV

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ASV

And the king commanded it so to be done: and a decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.

WEB

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

YLT

And the king saith--`to be done so;' and a law is given in Shushan, and the ten sons of Haman they have hanged.

DBT

And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

About this book

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Esther — A Jewish orphan becomes queen of Persia; Haman plots genocide; Mordecai and Esther intervene; deliverance comes by providence — and God's name never once appears in the book.

Author: Anonymous; some rabbinic tradition attributes to Mordecai
Date: Events c. 483–473 BC, during Xerxes I's reign (Heb. Ahasuerus); compilation 4th–5th century BC

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Galatians 3:13
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
Proverbs 12:7
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
Numbers 24:20
And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Ezra 7:13
I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Thus the Jews smote all their enemies--The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and their enemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread of Esther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favored their cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

But their humanity forbade them to do that, though that was designed against them. They slew none but those they found in arms; and therefore they did not take the spoil, but left it to the women and little ones, whom they spared, for their subsistence; otherwise as good slay them as starve them, take away their lives as take away their livelihoods.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is supposed that they were hanged in chains and left hanging for some time. (3.) The Jews in the country kept to their orders, and slew no more of their enemies than what were slain the thirteenth day, which were in all, among all the provinces, 75,000,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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