Verse 4
Esther 9:4
Noah Webster Bible
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For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai became greater and greater.
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי גָ֤דוֹל מָרְדֳּכַי֙ בְּ/בֵ֣ית הַ/מֶּ֔לֶךְ וְ/שָׁמְע֖/וֹ הוֹלֵ֣ךְ בְּ/כָל הַ/מְּדִינ֑וֹת כִּֽי הָ/אִ֥ישׁ מָרְדֳּכַ֖י הוֹלֵ֥ךְ וְ/גָדֽוֹל
English Translation
For Mordecai is great in the king's house, and his fame is going throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is great and is going.
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Chapter 9 Context
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Now in the twelfth month, that is , the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king...
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The Jews assembled in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand o...
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And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king...
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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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Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction,...
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And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
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And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
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And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
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And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,
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The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, they slew; but on the spoil they...
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On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king.
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And the king said to Esther the queen, the Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan...
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Then said Esther, If it shall please the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to d...
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And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman'...
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For the Jews that were in Shushan assembled on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew t...
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But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces assembled, and stood for their lives, and had r...
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On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made...
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But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled on the thirteenth day of the month, and on the fourteent...
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Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the...
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And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews that were in all the provinces of...
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To establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fi...
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As the days in which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from...
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And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and 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 devised against the...
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But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devis...
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Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this le...
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The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves t...
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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 c...
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And he sent the letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of...
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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed , according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther t...
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And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
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