Verse 3
Esther 9:3
World English Bible, British Edition
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All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors,
and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/כָל שָׂרֵ֨י הַ/מְּדִינ֜וֹת וְ/הָ/אֲחַשְׁדַּרְפְּנִ֣ים וְ/הַ/פַּח֗וֹת וְ/עֹשֵׂ֤י הַ/מְּלָאכָה֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ מְנַשְּׂאִ֖ים אֶת הַ/יְּהוּדִ֑ים כִּֽי נָפַ֥ל פַּֽחַד מָרְדֳּכַ֖י עֲלֵי/הֶֽם
English Translation
And all the officials of the provinces and the satraps and the governors and those who do the work of the king were causing fear among the Jews because the terror of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day
of the month, when the king...
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2
the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the
provinces of the King Ahasu...
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3
All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors,
and those who did the king’s b...
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For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout
all the provinces, for...
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5
The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with
slaughter and destruction,...
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6
In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
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7
They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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9
Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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10
the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they
didn’t lay their hand on the...
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11
On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel
of Susa was brought before the king.
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12
The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed
five hundred men in the citade...
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13
Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted
to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomor...
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14
The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in
Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons...
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15
The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth
day also of the month Adar,...
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16
The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves
together, defended their lives,...
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17
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
day of that month they...
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18
But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth
and on the fourteenth days of the...
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19
Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns,
make the fourteenth day of the m...
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20
Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews
who were in all the provinces of the K...
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to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days
of the month Adar yearly,
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as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month
which was turned to them fr...
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23
The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written
to them,
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because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the
Jews, had plotted against the...
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25
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that
his wicked plan, which he had p...
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26
Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore
because of all the words of...
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the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants,
and on all those who joined th...
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and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation,
every family, every p...
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Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
the Jew wrote with all authority to con...
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30
He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces
of the kingdom of Ahasueru...
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to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai
the Jew and Esther the queen ha...
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32
The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was
written in the book.
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