Esther 9:5
Good News Translation
So the Jews could do what they wanted with their enemies. They attacked them with swords and slaughtered them.

New Revised Standard Version
So the Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

Contemporary English Version
The Jews took their swords and did away with their enemies, without showing any mercy.

New American Bible
The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; they did to those who hated them as they pleased.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:

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So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:

smote.

Psalm 18:34-40,47,48 Who teacheth my hands to war: and thou hast made my arms like a brazen bow. . . .

Psalm 20:7,8 Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord, our God. . . .

Psalm 149:6-9 The high praises of God shall be in their mouth: and two-edged swords in their hands: . . .

2 Thessalonians 1:6 Seeing it is a just thing with God to repay tribulation to them that trouble you:

the stroke.

Jeremiah 18:21 Therefore deliver up their children to famine, and bring them into the hands of the sword: let their wives be bereaved of children and widows: and let their husbands be slain by death: let their young men be stabbed with the sword in battle.

what they would.

Context
The Jews Destroy Their Enemies
4For they knew him to be prince of the palace, and to have great power: and the fame of his name increased daily, and was spread abroad through all men's mouths. 5So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:6Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these:…
Cross References
Esther 3:13
Were sent by the king's messengers to all provinces, to kill and destroy all the Jews, both young and old, little children, and women, in one day, that is, on the thirteenth of the twelfth month, which is called Adar, and to make a spoil of their goods.

Esther 9:6
Insomuch that even in Susan they killed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Aman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews: whose names are these:

Esther 9:4
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