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Read Full Chapter (Esther 9) Esther 9:5 KJV
"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."
Esther 9:5 in Context (Verses 2–8 KJV)
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The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.
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And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.*
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For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
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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.*
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
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And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
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And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,