For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew (A)more and more powerful. The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them. In Susa the citadel itself the Jews killed and destroyed 500 men,

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