Esther 9:7
including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
BSB
ASV
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
KJV
And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Most of these names are Persian, and readily traceable to Old Persian roots. Est 9:10 On the spoil laid they not their hand - As they might have done (see the margin reference).
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.
