Esther 9:5
in Esther 9The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.
KJV
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
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This verse in Esther 9
Commentary
5 notes on this verseThus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction,.... Some with swords, and others with clubs, and staves; as the Targum; and such like slaughtering weapons of destruction: and did what they would unto those that hated them; being then entirely at their will, and under their power.
This site's exposition
The Jews put all their enemies
on Esther 9:5-10
Then comes the clause the chapter repeats three times: "they did not lay a hand on the plunder". At 1 Samuel 15:19 Saul lost the kingdom when he rushed upon the plunder of Amalek. Under Mordecai, of Kish's house, the Jews finish that war and leave the plunder untouched.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
Queen Esther's endeavor to successfully crush her enemies and root them out reveals the eagerness and zeal of a true queen, namely, of the holy church that constantly fights against her enemies and strives to defeat them completely and subdue them. And it is her …
What can it mean when we read that the Jews pursued their enemies and killed five hundred men in Shushan, except for the ten sons of Haman whom they nailed to gibbets? Merely that to the people of God, it is not only all the …
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
Thus the Jews smote all their enemies--The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and their enemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread of Esther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favored their cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.
The words behind it
11 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּכּ֤וּ | vaiyaku | and they struck down | H5221 → | |
| הַיְּהוּדִים֙ | haiyehudim | the Jews | H3064 → | 75 times |
| בְּכָל־ | bekhol | <in> all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| אֹ֣יְבֵיהֶ֔ם | ʾoyeveihem | enemies their | H341 → | 282 times |
| מַכַּת־ | makat- | a striking down of | H4347 → | |
| חֶ֥רֶב | cherev | sword | H2719 → | |
| וְהֶ֖רֶג | vehereg | and slaughter | H2027 → | |
| וְאַבְדָ֑ן | veavdan | and destruction | H12 → | |
| וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּ | vaiyaasu | and they did | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| בְשֹׂנְאֵיהֶ֖ם | vesoneeihem | over [those who] hated them | H8130 → | 146 times |
| כִּרְצוֹנָֽם׃ | kirtzonam | according to pleasure their | H7522 → |
וַיַּכּ֤וּand they struck down
vaiyakuH5221 →
הַיְּהוּדִים֙the Jews
haiyehudimH3064 →75 times
בְּכָל־<in> all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
אֹ֣יְבֵיהֶ֔םenemies their
ʾoyeveihemH341 →282 times
מַכַּת־a striking down of
makat-H4347 →
חֶ֥רֶבsword
cherevH2719 →
וְהֶ֖רֶגand slaughter
veheregH2027 →
וְאַבְדָ֑ןand destruction
veavdanH12 →
וַיַּֽעֲשׂ֥וּand they did
vaiyaasuH6213 →2628 times
בְשֹׂנְאֵיהֶ֖םover [those who] hated them
vesoneeihemH8130 →146 times
כִּרְצוֹנָֽם׃according to pleasure their
kirtzonamH7522 →
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
5 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 18:21Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…
it leads to
- Psalms 109:9–20
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
- Jeremiah 16:3–4
For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
- Lamentations 5:3
We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.
- Jeremiah 9:21
For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.
- Amos 4:10
“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you…
- Psalms 109:9–20
Where this verse is studied
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About Esther
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 12; Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Esther and W. F. Adeney, Ezra, Nehemiah and Esther (Expositor's Bible).