 And the letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar,...  Academical Lectures on the Jewish Scriptures and Antiquities: Hagiographa ... - Page 459by John Gorham Palfrey - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 590 pages
...must point out, II. What was necessary for the deliverance of the Jews. The decree had been issued ; " letters • were sent by posts into all the king's...month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey." This decree was in the king's name, and. sealed with the king's ring, and it was therefore unalterable.... | |
 | Osborn W Trenery Heighway - 1854 - 404 pages
...keeping back the essential part of the truth — he procured the king's command that letters should be " sent by posts into all the king's provinces, to destroy,...young and old, little children and women, in one day." With a horrible refinement of cruelty, the sword was to be held suspended over the necks of the innocent... | |
 | 1854 - 1132 pages
...Mordecai's matters would stand : for he had told them that he was a Jew. 5 And when Haman saw that even upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,...month Adar, and 'to take the spoil of them for a prey. 14 'The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - Bible - 1855 - 348 pages
...gone forth. Do you remember it ? Thus had Haman written it : " The king commands to destroy, to kill, to cause to perish all Jews — both young and old, little children and women — in one day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, and to take the spoil of them for a prey." Observe, Persia... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Women - 1855 - 332 pages
...ring, and despatched by post to the king's lieutenants, commanding that they should "destroy, kill, and cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, on one day." — Such are the machinations of him who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning,... | |
 | William King Tweedie - Women - 1855 - 334 pages
...ring, and despatched by post to the king's lieutenants, commanding that they should "destroy, kill, and cause to perish all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, on one day." — Such are the machinations of him who was a liar and a murderer from the beginning,... | |
 | Freeborn Garretson Hibbard - Bible - 1850 - 600 pages
...secretaries were called, and an edict was written, and sealed with the king's seal, and sent through all the provinces, " to destroy, to kill, and to cause to...month Adar, and to take the spoil of them for a prey." Esther iii, 13. This order was hastily sent to all places of the empire. The day for its bloody execution... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - Bible - 1856 - 368 pages
...forth. Do you remember It ? Thus had Hainan -written "it : " The king commands to destroy, to kill, to cause to perish all Jews- — both young and old, little children and women — in one day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, and to take the spoil of them for a prey/' Observe, Persia... | |
 | Hymns - 1856 - 1192 pages
...commanded concerning nim: but Mordecai bowed not,c nor did him reverence. tquat. * in destroy 13 And the . aim to cause tu 3 Then the king's servants, which them. perish, all Jews, both young and were in tho... | |
 | Maria Tolman Richards - Jewish fiction - 1857 - 402 pages
...extermination. For the decree had been written in the name of Ahasuerus, and sealed with the king's ring, and letters were sent by posts into all the king's provinces,...women, in one day, even upon the thirteenth day of the month Adar. At this dread crisis, but one hope remained . for the devoted Jews. The queen of Ahasuerus... | |
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