Quotes About Victory

In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

The Jews put all their enemies to the sword, killing and destroying them, and they did as they pleased to those who hated them.

In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,

including Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

On that day the number of those killed in the citadel of Susa was reported to the king,

who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Hamanís ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”

So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.

ëSurely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.í

I shattered the fangs of the unjust and snatched the prey from his teeth.

The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Yet when she proudly spreads her wings, she laughs at the horse and its rider.

He paws in the valley and rejoices in his strength; he charges into battle.

He laughs at fear, frightened of nothing; he does not turn back from the sword.

A club is regarded as straw, and he laughs at the sound of the lance.

You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”

I will not fear the myriads set against me on every side.

Arise, O LORD! Save me, O my God! Strike all my enemies on the jaw; break the teeth of the wicked.