Esther 3:13

13Letters were sent aby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction bto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, cin one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, dand to plunder their goods.

Esther 8:11

11saying that the king allowed the Jews who were in every city eto gather and defend their lives, fto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, children and women included, gand to plunder their goods,

Psalms 44:22-23

22Yet hfor your sake we are killed all the day long;
we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 iAwake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
Rouse yourself! jDo not reject us forever!
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