Esther 9:7Open English Bible (Commonwealth)

Esther 7:4

for I and my people have been sold to be destroyed, killed, and completely annihilated! If we had been merely sold into slavery I would not have disturbed your peace, because such a fate would not have affected the interests of the king.’

Esther 9:6

In Susa the capital the Jews killed five hundred people.

Esther 9:15

The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar. They killed three hundred people in Susa. But they did not take any plunder.

Esther 9:16

And the other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together and fought for their lives and overcame their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand who hated them. But they did not take any plunder.

Psalms 44:22

But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.