“Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,”
Wherein the king granted the Jews who were in every city to gather themselves together and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to annihilate any armed force of any people or province that might attack them, with their children and women, and to plunder their goods, demonstrating the contents of the counter-edict, which authorizes the Jews throughout the Persian Empire to defend themselves and to take offensive action against anyone who might attack them. This edict essentially provides legal cover for the Jews to fight back against those who would implement Haman's original decree, transforming the Jews from passive victims facing annihilation to active agents authorized to protect themselves. The verse represents a dramatic legal reversal where the same authority that authorized destruction is now used to authorize self-defense and the destruction of those who would destroy the Jews.
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