Esther 3:13 meaning and explanation
And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
Esther 3:13, Berean Standard Bible
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Haman has persuaded King Xerxes to authorize a kingdom-wide massacre, and this verse records the edict sent by courier to every province. The wording is deliberately absolute: destroy, kill and annihilate, with no distinction of age or sex, and plunder added so neighbors would profit from the killing.
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