And all the rulers of the provinces, and the princes and the captains, and the officers of the King [a]exalted the Jews: for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them.

For Mordecai was great in the King’s house, and the report of him went through all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

Thus the Jews smote all their [b]enemies with strokes of the sword and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 9:3 Did them honor, and showed them friendship.
  2. Esther 9:5 Which had conspired their death by the permission of the wicked Haman.

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