11
That same day the number of people killed in Susa was reported to the king.
12
He then said to Esther, "In Susa alone the Jews have killed five hundred people. What must they have done out in the provinces! Tell me what else you want, and you shall have it."
13
Esther answered, "Let the Jews in Susa do again tomorrow what they were allowed to do today. And have the bodies of Haman's ten sons hung up."
14
The king agreed and permitted the Jews to put the bodies of Haman's ten sons on public display.
15
On the fourteenth day of Adar the Jews of Susa got together again and killed three hundred more people in the city. But they did no looting.
16
The Jews in the provinces also organized and defended themselves. They rid themselves of their enemies by killing 15,000 people on the thirteenth day of Adar, but they did no looting.
17
On the next day, the fourteenth, there was no more killing, and the Jews made it a joyful holiday of rest and feasting.
18
The Jews of Susa, however, made the fifteenth a holiday, since they had slaughtered their enemies on the thirteenth and fourteenth and did not stop until the fifteenth.