9 Bible Verses about Jews Under Threat

But it was not enough for him to attack Mordecai only. They made clear to him who Mordecai's people were. So Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.

Then Esther again came before the king. She fell down at his feet and wept as she requested: that he would put a stop to the evil purposes of Haman the Agagite and the designs that he had made against the Jews.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: See now, I have given Esther the family of Haman, and he has come to his death by hanging, because he made an attack on the Jews.

They say: Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.

They crush your people, O Jehovah. They make those who belong to you suffer.

Esther the queen, answered: If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my petition. My people at my request:

The other Jews in every division of the kingdom came together, fighting for their lives, and got salvation from their enemies and put seventy-five thousand of them to death. They did not put a hand on their material goods.

Now on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, when the time came for the king's order to be put into effect, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them the opposite occurred, and the Jews had rule over their enemies.

And all the chiefs and the captains and the rulers and those who did the king's business supported the Jews because the fear of Mordecai had come on them.