Esther 3:13
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13 Letters were sent (A)by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction (B)to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, (C)in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, (D)and to plunder their goods.
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Esther 9:10
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10 (A)the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, (B)the enemy of the Jews, (C)but they laid no hand on the plunder.
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2 Chronicles 30:6
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6 (A)So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his princes, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, (B)return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of (C)the kings of Assyria.
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Esther 8:10-14
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10 (A)And he wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus (B)and sealed it with the king's signet ring. Then he sent the letters by mounted couriers riding on (C)swift horses that were used in the king's service, bred from the royal stud, 11 saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city (D)to gather and defend their lives, (E)to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, (F)and to plunder their goods, 12 (G)on one day throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar. 13 (H)A copy of what was written was to be issued as a decree in every province, being publicly displayed to all peoples, and the Jews were to be ready on that day to take vengeance on their enemies. 14 So the couriers, mounted on their (I)swift horses that were used in the king's service, rode out hurriedly, urged by the king's command. And the decree was issued in Susa the citadel.
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1 Samuel 15:3
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3 Now go and strike Amalek and (A)devote to destruction[a] all that they have. Do not spare them, (B)but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”
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James 2:13
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13 For (A)judgment is without mercy to one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.
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Romans 3:15
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15 (A)“Their feet are swift to shed blood;
Jeremiah 51:31
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31 One (A)runner runs to meet another,
and one messenger to meet another,
to tell the king of Babylon
that his city is taken on every side;
Isaiah 10:6
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6 Against a (A)godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (B)spoil and seize plunder,
and to (C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Job 9:25
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Esther 7:4
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4 (A)For we have been sold, I and my people, (B)to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have been silent, for our affliction is not to be compared with the loss to the king.”
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1 Samuel 22:19
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19 And Nob, the city of the priests, he put to the sword; (A)both man and woman, child and infant, ox, donkey and sheep, he put to the sword.
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