3. And all the princes of the provinces and the chief rulers and the governors and they who attended to the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.
4. For Mordecai was great in the king's palace; and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai became more and more powerful.
5. So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering and destroying them, and did as they chose with those who hated them.
6. In Shushan, the capital itself, the Jews slew and destroyed 500 men.
7. And they killed Parshandatha,
8. Dalphon, Aspatha, Poratha, Adalia,
9. Aridatha, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai,
10. And Vaizatha, the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the Jews' enemy; but on the spoil they laid not their hands.
11. On that day the number of those who were slain in Shushan, the capital, was brought before the king.
12. And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed 500 men in Shushan, the capital, and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted to you. Or what is your request further? It shall be done.
13. Then said Esther, If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let [the dead bodies of] Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows. [Esth. 9:10.]
14. And the king commanded it to be done; the decree was given in Shushan, and they hanged [the bodies of] Haman's ten sons.