4. For Mordecai was high-ranking in the king’s palace and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as Mordecai grew more and more powerful.
5. The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them; and they did as they pleased with those that hated them.
6. And in the citadel of Susa the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men,
7. and Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
8. Portha, Adalia, Aridatha,
9. Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,