Quotes About Conflict

But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard about this, they were deeply disturbed that someone had come to seek the well-being of the Israelites.

and all of them conspired to come and fight against Jerusalem and create a hindrance.

And our enemies said, “Before they know or see a thing, we will come into their midst, kill them, and put an end to the work.”

About that time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews.

Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm me.

The fifth time, Sanballat sent me this same message by his young servant, who had in his hand an unsealed letter

and you have even appointed prophets in Jerusalem to proclaim on your behalf: ëThere is a king in Judah.í Soon these rumors will reach the ears of the king. So come, let us confer together.”

Then I sent him this reply: “There is nothing to these rumors you are spreading; you are inventing them in your own mind.”

Also in those days, the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiahís letters came back to them.

Moreover, these nobles kept reporting to me Tobiahís good deeds, and they relayed my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to intimidate me.

Even one of the sons of Jehoiada son of Eliashib the high priest had become a son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I drove him away from me.

Then the royal servants at the kingís gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage.

And when he learned the identity of Mordecaiís people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecaiís people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.

So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. And calling for his friends and his wife Zeresh,

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the kingís gate.”

Then King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”

A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that the Jews would be ready on that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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

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.”

Esther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out todayís edict, and may the bodies of Hamanís ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”

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.