Bible Cross References
gathered themselves
Esther 9:2
In the Jewish quarter of every city in the empire the Jews organized to attack anyone who tried to harm them. People everywhere were afraid of them, and no one could stand against them.
Esther 9:13
Esther answered, "If it please Your Majesty, let the Jews in Susa do again tomorrow what they were allowed to do today. And have the bodies of Haman's ten sons hung from the gallows."
Esther 8:11
These letters explained that the king would allow the Jews in every city to organize for self-defense. If armed men of any nationality in any province attacked the Jewish men, their children, or their women, the Jews could fight back and destroy the attackers; they could slaughter them to the last man and take their possessions.
Psalm 118:7-12
7
It is the LORD who helps me, and I will see my enemies defeated.
8
It is better to trust in the LORD than to depend on people.
9
It is better to trust in the LORD than to depend on human leaders.
10
Many enemies were around me; but I destroyed them by the power of the LORD!
11
They were around me on every side; but I destroyed them by the power of the LORD!
12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of the LORD I destroyed them.
but on the prey
Esther 9:10
(SEE 9:7)
Esther 9:16
The Jews in the provinces also organized and defended themselves. They rid themselves of their enemies by killing seventy-five thousand people who hated them. But they did no looting.
1 Thessalonians 5:22
and avoid every kind of evil.
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money, and be satisfied with what you have. For God has said, "I will never leave you; I will never abandon you."