13The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.
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And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, that they should be ready against that day.
And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.
And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-14)Haman, the chief enemy of the Jews, was hanged, Mordecai and Esther, their chief friends, were sufficiently protected; but many others there were in the king’s dominions that hated the Jews and desired their ruin, and to their rage and malice all the rest of that people lay exposed; for the edict against them was still in force, and, in pursuance of it, their enemies would on the day appointed fal…
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