Cross references

Esther 3:13

And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

Esther 3:13 BSB

Esther 3:13 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 2 Chronicles 30:6 (4 votes) and Esther 9:10 (4 votes). 32 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from 1 Samuel 15 to James 2.

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Which verses does Esther 3:13 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. At the command of the king, the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, which read: “Children of Israel, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that He may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.

  2. They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.

  3. Now go and attack the Amalekites and devote to destruction all that belongs to them. Do not spare them, but put to death men and women, children and infants, oxen and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

  4. Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares. By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions. …

  5. He also put to the sword Nob, the city of the priests, with its men and women, children and infants, oxen, donkeys, and sheep.

  6. Esther 7:42 votes

    For my people and I have been sold out to destruction, death, and annihilation. If we had merely been sold as menservants and maidservants, I would have remained silent, because no such distress would justify burdening the king.”

  7. Job 9:252 votes

    My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

  8. I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

  9. One courier races to meet another, and messenger follows messenger, to announce to the king of Babylon that his city has been captured from end to end.

  10. “Their feet are swift to shed blood;

  11. James 2:132 votes

Which verses point to Esther 3:13?

The 10 strongest of 32.