In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces(A) the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.[a] Not a single person could withstand them; fear of them(B) fell on every nationality.(C)

All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and the royal civil administrators[b](D) aided the Jews because they feared Mordecai.(E) For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace,(F) and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.(G)

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Footnotes

  1. 9:2 Lit cities to send out a hand against the seekers of their evil
  2. 9:3 Lit and those who do the king’s work; Est 3:9

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