Verse 6
Esther 9:6
Bible in Basic English
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And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וּ/בְ/שׁוּשַׁ֣ן הַ/בִּירָ֗ה הָרְג֤וּ הַ/יְּהוּדִים֙ וְ/אַבֵּ֔ד חֲמֵ֥שׁ מֵא֖וֹת אִֽישׁ
English Translation
And in Shushan the palace, the Jews killed five hundred men.
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Chapter 9 Context
1
Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the...
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On that day, the Jews came together in their towns through all the divisions of the kingdom of Ahasu...
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And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business gave suppor...
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For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingd...
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So the Jews overcame all their attackers with the sword and with death and destruction, and did to t...
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And in Shushan the Jews put to death five hundred men.
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They put to death Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
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Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
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Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
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The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the hater of the Jews; but they put not a hand on any o...
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On that day the number of those who had been put to death in the town of Shushan was given to the ki...
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12
And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as we...
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13
Then Esther said, If it is the king's pleasure, let authority be given to the Jews in Shushan to do...
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And the king said that this was to be done, and the order was given out in Shushan, and the hanging...
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For the Jews who were in Shushan came together again on the fourteenth day of the month Adar and put...
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And the other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got...
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This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month t...
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But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and...
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So the Jews of the country places living in unwalled towns make the fourteenth day of the month Adar...
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And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in every division of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, near and fa...
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21
Ordering them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day of the same month,...
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As days on which the Jews had rest from their haters, and the month which for them was turned from s...
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And the Jews gave their word to go on as they had been doing and as Mordecai had given them orders i...
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Because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the hater of all the Jews, had made designs for th...
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But when the business was put before the king, he gave orders by letters that the evil design which...
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So these days were named Purim, after the name of Pur. And so, because of the words of this letter,...
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The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to th...
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And that those days were to be kept in memory through every generation and every family, in every di...
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Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the fo...
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And he sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven divisions of the kingdom of Ahas...
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Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mor...
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The order given by Esther gave the force of law to the rules about the Purim; and it was recorded in...
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