8:11 The king thereby allowed the Jews who were in every city to assemble and to stand up for themselves – to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate any army of whatever people or province that should become their adversaries, including their women and children, 1 and to confiscate their property.
10:6 I sent him 2 against a godless 3 nation,
I ordered him to attack the people with whom I was angry, 4
to take plunder and to carry away loot,
to trample them down 5 like dirt in the streets.