Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;


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Ezekiel 44 12 Because they ministered unto them before their idols, and caused the house of Israel to fall into iniquity; therefore have I lifted up mine hand against them, saith the Lord GOD, and they shall bear their iniquity.
3 John 1 7 Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles.
Esther 3 6 And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
Deuteronomy 23 4 Because they met you not with bread and with water in the way, when ye came forth out of Egypt; and because they hired against thee Balaam the son of Beor of Pethor of Mesopotamia, to curse thee.
1 Kings 15 30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God of Israel to anger.
Numbers 14 16 Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 35 5 Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:
Psalms 55 3 Because of the voice of the enemy, because of the oppression of the wicked: for they cast iniquity upon me, and in wrath they hate me.
Esther 9 5 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.
Daniel 3 8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews.
Ezekiel 25 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;
Nehemiah 5 1 And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
Esther 9 10 The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand.
1 Chronicles 21 7 And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.
Deuteronomy 2 15 For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Jeremiah 19 4 Because they have forsaken me, and have estranged this place, and have burned incense in it unto other gods, whom neither they nor their fathers have known, nor the kings of Judah, and have filled this place with the blood of innocents;
Jeremiah 41 18 Because of the Chaldeans: for they were afraid of them, because Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had slain Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, whom the king of Babylon made governor in the land.
1 Chronicles 21 14 So the LORD sent pestilence upon Israel: and there fell of Israel seventy thousand men.
2 Kings 18 12 Because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
Psalms 78 31 The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
Joshua 11 20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Isaiah 7 5 Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,
2 Chronicles 35 11 And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hands, and the Levites flayed them.
Judges 10 7 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
2 Samuel 21 5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,
Numbers 31 7 And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Judges 2 14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
John 5 16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
Acts 14 2 But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
2 Kings 21 11 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, which were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols:
2 Kings 24 2 And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
Esther 3 13 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, and to take the spoil of them for a prey.
Esther 4 7 And Mordecai told him of all that had happened unto him, and of the sum of the money that Haman had promised to pay to the king's treasuries for the Jews, to destroy them.
2 Chronicles 33 9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do worse than the heathen, whom the LORD had destroyed before the children of Israel.
Nehemiah 13 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
2 Chronicles 36 19 And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.
Judges 6 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel cried unto the LORD.
Nehemiah 4 8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
Exodus 32 11 And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
John 12 11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
Jeremiah 39 8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
Psalms 74 8 They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
Acts 14 5 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,
Psalms 106 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.
Deuteronomy 1 27 And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the LORD hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
Psalms 106 32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes:
2 Kings 10 32 In those days the LORD began to cut Israel short: and Hazael smote them in all the coasts of Israel;
Daniel 2 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
Matthew 12 14 Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.
John 6 52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?