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For Mordecai was high-ranking in the king’s palace[a] and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as Mordecai grew more and more powerful.[b] The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword,[c] killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them. And in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:4 Literally “house of the king”
  2. Esther 9:4 Literally “the man Mordecai was going and becoming great”
  3. Esther 9:5 Literally “the striking of the sword”