Esther 9:5

Esther chapter 9 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

v.5This passage

v.6And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Psalms 18:47
Even the God that executeth vengeance for me, And subdueth peoples under me.
Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle.
Psalms 20:7
Some trustin chariots, and some in horses; But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
if so be that it is a righteous thing with God to recompense affliction to them that afflict you,
Psalms 149:6
Letthe high praises of God be in their mouth, And a two-edged sword in their hand;
Psalms 18:34
He teacheth my hands to war; So that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.