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Bible in Basic English
So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do.
New American Standard Bible
Thus
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them.
International Standard Version
The Jewish people struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did with their enemies as they pleased.
A Conservative Version
And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would to those who hated them.
American Standard Version
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.
Amplified
So the Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.
Darby Translation
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.
Julia Smith Translation
And the Jews will strike against all their enemies with the blow of the sword, and killing and destruction; and they will do according to their desire upon those hating them.
King James 2000
Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The Jews struck down all their enemies with {the sword}, killing and destroying [them]; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them.
Modern King James verseion
And the Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would to those who hated them.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with a sore slaughter, and slew and destroyed, and did after their will unto such as were their adversaries.
NET Bible
The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies.
New Heart English Bible
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
The Emphasized Bible
So then the Jews smote all their enemies, with the smiting of the sword and slaughter, and destruction, - and they dealt with them who hated them according to their pleasure.
Webster
Thus 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.
World English Bible
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.
Youngs Literal Translation
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,
Themes
Gentiles » Hated and despised the jews
Hatred » Exemplified » Enemies of the jews
Interlinear
Nakah
Ratsown
Word Count of 20 Translations in Esther 9:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Jews Destroy Their Enemies
4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater. 5 So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to their haters whatever they had a desire to do. 6 And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.
Cross References
Psalm 18:34-40
He makes my hands expert in war, so that a bow of brass is bent by my arms.
Psalm 18:47-48
It is God who sends punishment on my haters, and puts peoples under my rule.
Psalm 20:7-8
Some put their faith in carriages and some in horses; but we will be strong in the name of the Lord our God.
Psalm 149:6-9
Let the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hands;
Jeremiah 18:21
For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.
2 Thessalonians 1:6
For it is an act of righteousness on God's part to give trouble as their reward to those who are troubling you,