Esther 9:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Thus 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.

Esther 9:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jeremiah 18:21
Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.
Psalms 18:47-48
It is God that avengeth me, and subdueth the people under me. …
Psalms 18:34-40
He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by mine arms. …
Psalms 20:7-8
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God. …
Psalms 149:6-9
Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; …

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-19)

We have here a decisive battle fought between the Jews and their enemies, in which the Jews were victorious. Neither side was surprised; for both had notice of it long enough before, so that it was a fair trial of skill between them. Nor could either side call the other rebels, for they were both supported by the royal authority. I. The enemies of the Jews were the aggressors. They hoped, notwiths…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-16. 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.