3. For even the judges of the provinces, and the rulers, and the procurators, and everyone of dignity, who presided over every place and work, extolled the Jews for fear of Mordecai.
4. For they knew him to be the leader of the palace and to have much power. Likewise, the fame of his name increased daily and flew everywhere through word of mouth.
5. And so the Jews struck their enemies like a great plague and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them,
6. so much so that even in Susa they executed five hundred men, besides the ten sons of Haman the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, and their names are these:
7. Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha
8. and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,