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,
10 the ten sons of Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews; but they did not touch the plunder.