Esther 7:4
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4 For we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed, and to be annihilated. If we had been sold merely as slaves, men and women, I would have held my peace, but no enemy can compensate for this damage to the king.”[a](A)
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- 7.4 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Esther 3:9
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9 If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued for their destruction, and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, so that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.”
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Deuteronomy 28:68
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68 The Lord will bring you back in ships to Egypt, by a route that I promised you would never see again, and there you shall offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as male and female slaves, but there will be no buyer.”
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Esther 3:13
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13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king’s provinces, giving orders to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, children and women, in one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.(A)
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Esther 8:11
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11 By these letters the king allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and defend their lives, to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, their children, and their women, and to plunder their goods(A)
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Amos 2:6
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Judgment on Israel
6 Thus says the Lord:
For three transgressions of Israel,
and for four, I will not revoke the punishment,[a]
because they sell the righteous for silver
and the needy for a pair of sandals—(A)
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- 2.6 Heb cause it to return
Joel 3:6
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6 You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks, removing them far from their own border.
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Psalm 44:22-23
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22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.(A)
23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Awake, do not cast us off forever!(B)
Esther 7:6
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6 Esther said, “A foe and an enemy, this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was terrified before the king and the queen.(A)
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Esther 4:7-8
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7 and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him and the exact sum of money that Haman had promised to pay into the king’s treasuries for the destruction of the Jews.(A) 8 Mordecai also gave him a copy of the written decree issued in Susa for their destruction, that he might show it to Esther, explain it to her, and charge her to go to the king to make supplication to him and to entreat him for her people.(B)
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”(A)
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1 Samuel 22:23
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23 Stay with me, and do not be afraid, for the one who seeks my life seeks your life; you will be safe with me.”(A)
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Joshua 9:23
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23 Now, therefore, you are cursed, and some of you shall always be slaves, woodcutters and drawers of water for the house of my God.”(A)
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Genesis 37:26-28
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26 Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?(A) 27 Come, let us sell him to the Ishmaelites and not lay our hands on him, for he is our brother, our own flesh.” And his brothers agreed.(B) 28 When some Midianite traders passed by, they drew Joseph up, lifting him out of the pit, and sold him to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. And they took Joseph to Egypt.(C)
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