And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials,
They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted cou
Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death
“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and
One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has
I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservant