Esther 8:11

Louis Segond

Par ces lettres, le roi donnait aux Juifs, en quelque ville qu'ils fussent, la permission de se rassembler et de défendre leur vie, de détruire, de tuer et de faire périr, avec leurs petits enfants et leurs femmes, tous ceux de chaque peuple et de chaque province qui prendraient les armes pour les attaquer, et de livrer leurs biens au pillage,

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Ces lettres portaient que le roi permettait aux Juifs qui �taient dans chaque ville, de s'assembler et de se mettre en d�fense pour leur vie; d'exterminer, de tuer et de d�truire toute force arm�e du peuple et de la province qui les opprimerait, ainsi que les petits enfants et les femmes, et de piller leurs d�pouilles;

Darby's French Translation
Ces lettres portaient que le roi accordait aux Juifs, dans chaque ville, de s'assembler et de se mettre en d�fense pour leur vie, et de d�truire, tuer, et faire p�rir toute force du peuple et de la province qui les opprimerait, -eux et leurs enfants et leurs femmes, et de mettre au pillage leurs biens,

La Bible David Martin (1744)
[Savoir] que le Roi avait octroy� aux Juifs qui �taient dans chaque ville de s'assembler, et de se mettre en d�fense pour leur vie, afin d'exterminer, de tuer, et de d�truire toute assembl�e de gens, de quelque peuple et de quelque province que ce soit, qui se trouveraient en armes pour opprimer les Juifs, [de les exterminer] eux et leurs petits enfants, et leurs femmes, et de piller leurs d�pouilles.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to gather: Esther 9:2-16

to destroy: Psalms 37:14, Psalms 37:15, Psalms 68:3, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 146:6-9, Ezekiel 39:10

and to take the spoil: Esther 3:13, Esther 9:10, Esther 9:15, Esther 9:16, Isaiah 10:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 49:28 - the twelve Esther 7:4 - to be destroyed Esther 9:13 - according unto Proverbs 25:5 - away Jeremiah 25:10 - take from Jeremiah 48:4 - her

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together,.... In some part of the city they should choose, and remain in a body, being sufficiently armed:

and to stand for their life; to defend themselves, and fight for their life, should any attack them, or attempt to take it away; in such case they might act offensively,

so as to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them; every army of them, or as many as should join in a body to attack them, any mighty or powerful mob; and not men only,

but both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey; the same words are used, and the same power is given them as were to their enemies, Esther 3:13, not that they made use of it to the utmost extremity, it is certain they did not in one point, in taking the spoil, Esther 9:10, and, since they spared that, it is highly probable they spared women and children.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This fresh decree allowed the Jews to stand on their defense, and to kill all who attacked them. It has been pronounced incredible that any king would thus have sanctioned civil war in all the great cities of his empire; but some even of the more skeptical critics allow that “Xerxes” might not improbably have done so.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 8:11. To destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish — The same words as in Haman's decree: therefore the Jews had as much authority to slay their enemies, as their enemies had to slay them.

Little ones and women — This was the ordinary custom, to destroy the whole family of those convicted of great crimes; and whether this was right or wrong, it was the custom of the people, and according to the laws. Besides, as this edict was to give the Jews the same power against their enemies as they had by the former decree against them, and the women and children were there included; consequently they must be included here.