Esther 7:4

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Esther 7:4

For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and extermination. If we had merely been sold as male and female slaves, I would have kept silent. Indeed, the trouble wouldn’t be worth burdening the king.”

Esther 3:9

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury.”

Deuteronomy 28:68

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Esther 3:13

Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people—young and old, women and children—and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Esther 8:11

The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.

Genesis 37:26-28

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

Joshua 9:23

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

1 Samuel 22:23

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life. You will be safe with me.”

Nehemiah 5:5

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Esther 4:7-8

Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.

Esther 7:6

Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

Psalm 44:22-23

Because of You we are slain all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

Joel 3:6

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.

Amos 2:6

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

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Summary

Esther 7:4

For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

We are sold

To be destroyed, etc

Esther 3:13

Esther 8:11

Psalm 44:22

But if we

The enemy

Esther 7:6

Esther 3:9

Bible References

We are sold

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury.”

Mordecai told him everything that had happened as well as the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay the royal treasury for the slaughter of the Jews.

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Stay with me. Don’t be afraid, for the one who wants to take my life wants to take your life. You will be safe with me.”

To be destroyed, etc

Because of You we are slain all day long;
we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.

But if we

Then Judah said to his brothers, “What do we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?

The Lord will take you back in ships to Egypt by a route that I said you would never see again. There you will sell yourselves to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no one will buy you.”

Therefore you are cursed and will always be slaves—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

You sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks to remove them far from their own territory.

The Lord says:

I will not relent from punishing Israel
for three crimes, even four,
because they sell a righteous person for silver
and a needy person for a pair of sandals.

The enemy

Esther answered, “The adversary and enemy is this evil Haman.”

Haman stood terrified before the king and queen.

If the king approves, let an order be drawn up authorizing their destruction, and I will pay 375 tons of silver to the accountants for deposit in the royal treasury.”