Esther 9:5 KJV — MannaFest

Esther 9:5

Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

KJV

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ASV

And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.

WEB

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

YLT

And the Jews smite among all their enemies--a smiting of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction--and do with those hating them according to their pleasure,

DBT

And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword and slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those that hated them.

About this book

Old Testament

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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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10 verses on the floor

Psalms 18:34–40
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms.
Psalms 20:7–8
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Psalms 18:47–48
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me.
Psalms 149:6–9
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;

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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

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