Esther 9:6

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4 For Mordecai was great in the king’s palace, and his fame spread throughout all the provinces; for this man Mordecai ^abecame increasingly prominent.

5 Thus the Jews defeated all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, with slaughter and destruction, and did what they pleased with those who hated them.

6 And in ^aShushan the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

7 Also Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vajezatha—

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Esther 9:6

And in Shushan - It is strange that in this city, where the king' s mind must have been so well known, there should be found five hundred persons to rise up in hostility against those whom they knew the king befriended!

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