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jps@Exodus:32:14 @ And the LORD repented of the evil which He said He would do unto His people.

jps@Exodus:33:11 @ And the LORD spoke unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend. And he would return into the camp; but his minister Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, departed not out of the Tent.

jps@Leviticus:10:19 @ And Aaron spoke unto Moses: 'Behold, this day have they offered their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before the LORD, and there have befallen me such things as these; and if I had eaten the sin-offering to-day, would it have been well-pleasing in the sight of the LORD?

jps@Numbers:11:4 @ And the mixed multitude that was among them fell a lusting; and the children of Israel also wept on their part, and said: 'Would that we were given flesh to eat!

jps@Numbers:11:18 @ And say thou unto the people: Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, and ye shall eat flesh; for ye have wept in the ears of the LORD, saying: Would that we were given flesh to eat! for it was well with us in Egypt; therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.

jps@Numbers:11:29 @ And Moses said unto him: 'Art thou jealous for my sake? would that all the LORD'S people were prophets, that the LORD would put His spirit upon them!'

jps@Numbers:14:2 @ And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron; and the whole congregation said unto them: 'Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would we had died in this wilderness!

jps@Numbers:14:30 @ surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I lifted up My hand that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

jps@Numbers:14:31 @ But your little ones, that ye said would be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have rejected.

jps@Numbers:20:3 @ And the people strove with Moses, and spoke, saying: 'Would that we had perished when our brethren perished before the LORD!

jps@Numbers:21:23 @ And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

jps@Numbers:22:18 @ And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak: 'If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD my God, to do any thing, small or great.

jps@Numbers:22:29 @ And Balaam said unto the ass: 'Because thou hast mocked me; I would there were a sword in my hand, for now I had killed thee.'

jps@Numbers:24:13 @ If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; what the LORD speaketh, that will I speak?

jps@Deuteronomy:1:26 @ Yet ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God;

jps@Deuteronomy:2:30 @ But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for the LORD thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that He might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

jps@Deuteronomy:7:8 @ but because the LORD loved you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

jps@Deuteronomy:8:2 @ And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that He might afflict thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.

jps@Deuteronomy:8:20 @ As the nations that the LORD maketh to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of the LORD your God.

jps@Deuteronomy:9:25 @ So I fell down before the LORD the forty days and forty nights that I fell down; because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

jps@Deuteronomy:10:10 @ Now I stayed in the mount, as at the first time, forty days and forty nights; and the LORD hearkened unto me that time also; the LORD would not destroy thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:21:11 @ and seest among the captives a woman of goodly form, and thou hast a desire unto her, and wouldest take her to thee to wife;

jps@Deuteronomy:23:5 @ Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

jps@Deuteronomy:26:17 @ Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and that thou wouldest walk in His ways, and keep His statutes, and His commandments, and His ordinances, and hearken unto His voice.

jps@Deuteronomy:28:56 @ The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter;

jps@Deuteronomy:28:67 @ In the morning thou shalt say: 'Would it were even!' and at even thou shalt say: 'Would it were morning!' for the fear of thy heart which thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

jps@Deuteronomy:32:26 @ I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;

jps@Deuteronomy:32:29 @ If they were wise, they would understand this, they would discern their latter end.

jps@Joshua:5:6 @ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD; unto whom the LORD swore that He would not let them see the land which the LORD swore unto their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

jps@Joshua:7:7 @ And Joshua said: 'Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast Thou at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the Jordan!

jps@Joshua:15:18 @ And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@Joshua:24:10 @ But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he even blessed you; so I delivered you out of his hand.

jps@Judges:1:14 @ And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@Judges:1:34 @ And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley.

jps@Judges:3:4 @ And they were there, to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which He commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

jps@Judges:8:19 @ And he said: 'They were my brethren, the sons of my mother; as the LORD liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.'

jps@Judges:8:24 @ And Gideon said unto them: 'I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil.'--For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.

jps@Judges:9:29 @ And would that this people were under my hand! then would I remove Abimelech.' And he said to Abimelech: 'Increase thine army, and come out.'

jps@Judges:11:17 @ then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying: Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not; and Israel abode in Kadesh.

jps@Judges:13:23 @ But his wife said unto him: 'If the LORD were pleased to kill us, He would not have received a burnt-offering and a meal- offering at our hand, neither would He have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.'

jps@Judges:14:6 @ And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as one would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand; but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

jps@Judges:15:1 @ But it came to pass after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said: 'I will go in to my wife into the chamber.' But her father would not suffer him to go in.

jps@Judges:19:10 @ But the man would not tarry that night, but he rose up and departed, and came over against Jebus--the same is Jerusalem; and there were with him a couple of asses saddled; his concubine also was with him.

jps@Judges:19:25 @ But the men would not hearken to him; so the man laid hold on his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning; and when the day began to spring, they let her go.

jps@Judges:20:13 @ Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel.' But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

jps@Ruth:1:13 @ would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye shut yourselves off for them and have no husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes, for the hand of the LORD is gone forth against me.'

jps@1Samuel:1:7 @ And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house of the LORD, so she vexed her; therefore she wept, and would not eat.

jps@1Samuel:2:16 @ And if the man said unto him: 'Let the fat be made to smoke first of all, and then take as much as thy soul desireth'; then he would say: 'Nay, but thou shalt give it me now; and if not, I will take it by force.'

jps@1Samuel:2:20 @ And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, and say: 'The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which was lent to the LORD.' And they would go unto their own home.

jps@1Samuel:2:25 @ If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall entreat for him?' But they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

jps@1Samuel:13:13 @ And Samuel said to Saul: 'Thou hast done foolishly; thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which He commanded thee; for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

jps@1Samuel:15:9 @ But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, even the young of the second birth, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them; but every thing that was of no account and feeble, that they destroyed utterly.

jps@1Samuel:18:2 @ And Saul took him that day, and would let him go no more home to his father's house.

jps@1Samuel:20:9 @ And Jonathan said: 'Far be it from thee; for if I should at all know that evil were determined by my father to come upon thee, then would not I tell it thee?

jps@1Samuel:22:17 @ And the king said unto the guard that stood about him: 'Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew that he fled, and did not disclose it to me.' But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the LORD.

jps@1Samuel:22:22 @ And David said unto Abiathar: 'I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul; I have brought about the death of all the persons of thy father's house.

jps@1Samuel:26:23 @ And the LORD will render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; forasmuch as the LORD delivered thee into my hand to-day, and I would not put forth my hand against the LORD'S anointed.

jps@1Samuel:31:4 @ Then said Saul to his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

jps@2Samuel:2:21 @ And Abner said to him: 'Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour.' But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

jps@2Samuel:4:6 @ And they came thither into the midst of the house, as though they would have fetched wheat; and they smote him in the groin; and Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.

jps@2Samuel:6:10 @ So David would not remove the ark of the LORD unto him into the city of David; but David carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite.

jps@2Samuel:11:20 @ it shall be that, if the king's wrath arise, and he say unto thee: Wherefore went ye so nigh unto the city to fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

jps@2Samuel:12:8 @ and I gave thee thy master's house, and thy master's wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah; and if that were too little, then would I add unto thee so much more.

jps@2Samuel:12:17 @ And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth; but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

jps@2Samuel:13:14 @ Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

jps@2Samuel:13:16 @ And she said unto him: 'Not so, because this great wrong in putting me forth is worse than the other that thou didst unto me.' But he would not hearken unto her.

jps@2Samuel:13:25 @ And the king said to Absalom: 'Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee.' And he pressed him; howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

jps@2Samuel:14:16 @ For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

jps@2Samuel:14:29 @ Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him; and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

jps@2Samuel:15:4 @ Absalom said moreover: 'Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man who hath any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice!'

jps@2Samuel:18:11 @ And Joab said unto the man that told him: 'And, behold, thou sawest it, and why didst thou not smite him there to the ground? and I would have had to give thee ten pieces of silver, and a girdle.'

jps@2Samuel:18:12 @ And the man said unto Joab: 'Though I should receive a thousand pieces of silver in my hand, yet would I not put forth my hand against the king's son; for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying: Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.

jps@2Samuel:18:13 @ Otherwise if I had dealt falsely against mine own life--and there is no matter hid from the king--then thou thyself wouldest have stood aloof.'

jps@2Samuel:18:33 @ And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went, thus he said: 'O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!'

jps@2Samuel:19:18 @ And the ferryboat passed to and fro to bring over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, when he would go over the Jordan.

jps@2Samuel:19:36 @ Thy servant would but just go over the Jordan with the king; and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

jps@2Samuel:23:15 @ And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!'

jps@2Samuel:23:16 @ And the three mighty men broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.

jps@2Samuel:23:17 @ And he said: 'Be it far from me, O LORD, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives?' therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

jps@1Kings:1:16 @ And Bath-sheba bowed, and prostrated herself unto the king. And the king said: 'What wouldest thou?'

jps@1Kings:8:12 @ Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

jps@1Kings:13:33 @ After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again from among all the people priests of the high places; whosoever would, he consecrated him, that he might be one of the priests of the high places.

jps@1Kings:18:9 @ And he said: 'Wherein have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

jps@1Kings:18:32 @ And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

jps@1Kings:21:4 @ And Ahab came into his house sullen and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him; for he had said: 'I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers.' And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

jps@1Kings:22:18 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'

jps@1Kings:22:49 @ Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat: 'Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships.' But Jehoshaphat would not.

jps@2Kings:2:1 @ And it came to pass, when the LORD would take up Elijah by a whirlwind into heaven, that Elijah went with Elisha from Gilgal.

jps@2Kings:3:14 @ And Elisha said: 'As the LORD of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

jps@2Kings:4:13 @ And he said unto him: 'Say now unto her: Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host?' And she answered: 'I dwell among mine own people.'

jps@2Kings:5:3 @ And she said unto her mistress: 'Would that my lord were with the prophet that is in Samaria! then would he recover him of his leprosy.'

jps@2Kings:5:13 @ And his servants came near, and spoke unto him, and said: 'My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee: Wash, and be clean?'

jps@2Kings:6:22 @ And he answered: 'Thou shalt not smite them; hast thou taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow those whom thou wouldest smite? set bread and water before them, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.'

jps@2Kings:8:14 @ Then he departed from Elisha, and came to his master, who said to him: 'What said Elisha to thee?' And he answered: 'He told me that thou wouldest surely recover.'

jps@2Kings:8:19 @ Howbeit the LORD would not destroy Judah, for David His servant's sake, as He promised him to give unto him a lamp and to his children alway.

jps@2Kings:13:23 @ But the LORD was gracious unto them, and had compassion on them, and had respect unto them, because of His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and would not destroy them, neither hath He cast them from His presence until now.

jps@2Kings:14:11 @ But Amaziah would not hear. So Jehoash king of Israel went up; and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

jps@2Kings:14:27 @ And the LORD said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.

jps@2Kings:17:14 @ notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their neck, like to the neck of their fathers, who believed not in the LORD their God;

jps@2Kings:18:12 @ because they hearkened not to the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed His covenant, even all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear it, nor do it.

jps@2Kings:24:4 @ and also for the innocent blood that he shed; for he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood; and the LORD would not pardon.

jps@1Chronicles:4:10 @ And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying: 'Oh that Thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that Thy hand might be with me, and that Thou wouldest work deliverance from evil, that it may not pain me!' And God granted him that which he requested.

jps@1Chronicles:10:4 @ Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer: 'Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and make a mock of me.' But his armour-bearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took his sword, and fell upon it.

jps@1Chronicles:11:17 @ And David longed, and said: 'Oh that one would give me water to drink of the well of Beth-lehem, which is by the gate!'

jps@1Chronicles:11:18 @ And the three broke through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Beth-lehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; but David would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD,

jps@1Chronicles:11:19 @ and said: 'My God forbid it me, that I should do this; shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it.' Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.

jps@1Chronicles:13:4 @ And all the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.

jps@1Chronicles:19:19 @ And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him; neither would the Arameans help the children of Ammon any more.

jps@1Chronicles:27:23 @ But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under; because the LORD had said He would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.

jps@2Chronicles:6:1 @ Then spoke Solomon: The LORD hath said that He would dwell in the thick darkness.

jps@2Chronicles:6:20 @ that Thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof Thou hast said that thou wouldest put Thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which Thy servant shall pray toward this place.

jps@2Chronicles:12:12 @ And when he humbled himself, the anger of the LORD turned from him, that He would not destroy him altogether; and moreover in Judah there were good things found.

jps@2Chronicles:15:13 @ and that whosoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

jps@2Chronicles:18:17 @ And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat: 'Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?'

jps@2Chronicles:20:10 @ And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom Thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and destroyed them not;

jps@2Chronicles:21:7 @ Howbeit the LORD would not destroy the house of David, because of the covenant that He had made with David, and as He promised to give a lamp to him and to his children alway.

jps@2Chronicles:24:19 @ Yet He sent prophets to them, to bring them back unto the LORD; and they admonished them, but they would not give ear.

jps@2Chronicles:25:20 @ But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that He might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

jps@2Chronicles:35:22 @ Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco, from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

jps@Ezra:9:14 @ shall we again break Thy commandments, and make marriages with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not Thou be angry with us till Thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

jps@Ezra:10:5 @ Then arose Ezra, and made the chiefs of the priests, the Levites, and all Israel, to swear that they would do according to this word. So they swore.

jps@Ezra:10:19 @ And they gave their hand that they would put away their wives; and being guilty, they offered a ram of the flock for their guilt.

jps@Nehemiah:2:5 @ And I said unto the king: 'If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.'

jps@Nehemiah:5:8 @ And I said unto them: 'We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that sold themselves unto the heathen; and would ye nevertheless sell your brethren, and should they sell themselves unto us?' Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

jps@Nehemiah:6:6 @ wherein was written: 'It is reported among the nations, and Geshem saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel; for which cause thou buildest the wall; and thou wouldest be their king, even according to these words.

jps@Nehemiah:6:9 @ For they all would have us afraid, saying: 'Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.' But now, strengthen Thou my hands.

jps@Nehemiah:6:14 @ Remember, O my God, Tobiah and Sanballat according to these their works, and also the prophetess Noadiah, and the rest of the prophets, that would have me put in fear.

jps@Nehemiah:9:24 @ So the children went in and possessed the land, and Thou didst subdue before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the peoples of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

jps@Nehemiah:9:29 @ and didst forewarn them, that Thou mightest bring them back unto Thy law; yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto Thy commandments, but sinned against Thine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live by them, and presented a stubborn shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.

jps@Nehemiah:9:30 @ Yet many years didst Thou extend mercy unto them, and didst forewarn them by Thy spirit through Thy prophets; yet would they not give ear; therefore gavest Thou them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

jps@Nehemiah:10:30 @ and that we would not give our daughters unto the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

jps@Nehemiah:10:31 @ and if the peoples of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

jps@Esther:2:11 @ And Mordecai walked every day before the court of the women's house, to know how Esther did, and what would become of her.

jps@Esther:3:4 @ Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.

jps@Esther:6:6 @ So Haman came in. And the king said unto him: 'What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour?'--Now Haman said in his heart: 'Whom would the king delight to honour besides myself?'--

jps@Esther:8:11 @ that the king had granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, and to slay, and to cause to perish, all the forces of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

jps@Esther:9:5 @ And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.

jps@Esther:9:27 @ the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing thereof, and according to the appointed time thereof, every year;