Esther 9:10

The ten sons of Haman, the Jews' enemy, were killed, yet the Jews deliberately took no plunder. Their restraint shows the day was about self-defense and justice, not greed.

Cross-references · 15

• Esth 8:11In those letters, the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together, and to defend their life, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to plunder their possessions,
• Esth 5:11Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
• Gen 14:23that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
• Job 18:18–19He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
• Job 27:13–15“This is the portion of a wicked man with God, the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty.
• Esth 9:15–16The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
• Phil 4:8Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.
• Ps 109:12–13Let there be no one to extend kindness to him, neither let there be anyone to have pity on his fatherless children.
• Ps 21:10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
• Exod 17:16He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’”
• Rom 12:17Repay no one evil for evil. Respect what is honorable in the sight of all men.
• Exod 20:5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Esth 3:1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
• Esth 7:6Esther said, “An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman!” Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Esth 7:4For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for male and female slaves, I would have held my peace, although the adversary could not have compensated for the king’s loss.”

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