16
Now
athe rest of the Jews who
were in the king's provinces
bassembled, to defend their lives and rid themselves of their enemies, and kill 75,000 of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
b
Leviticus 26:7, Leviticus 26:8, Esther 8:11
Leviticus 26
7
'But you will chase your enemies and they will fall before you by the sword;
Leviticus 26
8
afive of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand, and your enemies will fall before you by the sword.
Esther 8
11
In them the king granted the Jews who were in each and every city the right ato assemble and to defend their lives, bto destroy, to kill and to annihilate the entire army of any people or province which might attack them, including children and women, and cto plunder their spoil,
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