Est 3:8-14, Psa 83:4-8, Jer 31:36, 33:24, 46:28, 48:42 | 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.

v[See ver. 6 above]

w 1 Sam. 15:2

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

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

z 2 Kgs. 15:19

aa Deut. 2:9, 19

ab[Ps. 148:6; Isa. 54:9, 10]; For ver. 36, 37, see ch. 33:20-26

ac[See ver. 27 above]

ad ch. 10:24

ae[Isa. 7:8]

af ver. 26

Esther 3:8-14

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. 14 ^oA copy of the document was to be issued as a decree in every province by proclamation to all the peoples to be ready for that day.

Psalms 83:4-8

4 They say, “Come, ^plet 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 ^qEdom and ^rthe Ishmaelites,
^sMoab and ^tthe Hagrites,
7 ^uGebal and ^vAmmon and ^wAmalek,
^xPhilistia with the inhabitants of ^yTyre;
8 ^zAsshur also has joined them;
they are the strong arm of ^aathe children of Lot. Selah

Jeremiah 31:36

36 ^ab“If this fixed order departs
from before me, declares the Lord,
then shall the offspring of Israel cease
from being a nation before me forever.”

Jeremiah 33:24

24 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight.

Jeremiah 46:28

28 ^acFear not, O Jacob my servant,

declares the Lord,
for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
to which I have driven you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
^adI will discipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Jeremiah 48:42

42 Moab shall be ^aedestroyed and be no longer a people,
because ^afhe magnified himself against the Lord.