Esther 9:1-3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Victories of the Jews

9 The king’s command and law^(A) went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,^(B) the month Adar.^[a] On the day when the Jews’ enemies^(C) had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.^{(D) 2} In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces^(E) the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.^[b] Not a single person could withstand them; terror of them^(F) fell on every nationality.^(G)

³ All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators^[c](H) aided the Jews because they were afraid of Mordecai.^(I)