Est 3:8-13, Psa 83:4-8, Isa 7:8, Jer 30:11, 48:2, Mat 7:2 | ESV | STEP | Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus , There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom . Their laws are different from those of every other people , and they do not keep the king’s laws , so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

u[See ver. 6 above]

v 1 Sam. 15:2

w 1 Sam. 4:1; [Amos 1:6]

x Ezek. 27:3; [Amos 1:9]

aeSee ch. 10:24

af ver. 34, 45; ch. 49:3; Num. 32:37; Isa. 15:4

ag[ch. 31:36]

ah[Isa. 10:31]

ai Rom. 2:1, 3; 14:10; James 2:13; 4:11, 12

aj Mark 4:24; [Judg. 1:7]

Esther 3:8-13

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^aTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents ^{▼▼A talent was about 75 pounds or 34 kilograms} of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries.” 10 ^cSo the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman ^dthe Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, ^ethe enemy of the Jews. 11 And the king said to Haman, “The money is given to you, the people also, to do with them as it seems good to you.”

12 ^fThen the king’s scribes were summoned on the thirteenth day of the first month, and an edict, according to all that Haman commanded, was written to the king’s ^gsatraps and to the governors over all the provinces and to the officials of all the peoples, ^hto every province in its own script and every people in its own language. It was written ⁱin the name of King Ahasuerus ^jand sealed with the king’s signet ring. 13 Letters were sent ^kby couriers to all the king’s provinces with instruction ^lto destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, ^min one day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, ⁿand to plunder their goods.

Psalms 83:4-8

4 They say, “Come, ^olet us wipe them out as a nation;
let the name of Israel be remembered no more!”
5 For they conspire with one accord;
against you they make a covenant—
6 the tents of ^pEdom and ^qthe Ishmaelites,
^rMoab and ^sthe Hagrites,
7 ^tGebal and ^uAmmon and ^vAmalek,
^wPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^xTyre;
8 ^yAsshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of ^zthe children of Lot. Selah

Isaiah 7:8

8 For the head of Syria is ^aaDamascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.

Jeremiah 30:11

11 ^abFor I am with you to save you,

declares the Lord;
^acI will make a full end of all the nations
among whom I scattered you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
^adI will ^aediscipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

Jeremiah 48:2

2 the renown of Moab is no more.
In ^afHeshbon they planned disaster against her:
‘Come, let us cut her off ^agfrom being a nation!’
You also, O ^ahMadmen, shall be brought to silence;
the sword shall pursue you.

Matthew 7:2

2 ^aiFor with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and ^ajwith the measure you use it will be measured to you.