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Esther pleased the custodian of women and won his favor. He not only promptly provided her with cosmetics and good food but assigned to her seven special maids from the king's household and transferred her and her maids into the best place in the harem. (Esther 2, 9)
After a preparation of twelve months decreed for the women, each of them had to appear in turn before King Ahasuerus. This preparatory period was for beautifying treatment: six months with oil of myrrh and six months with perfumes and cosmetics. (Esther 2, 12)
The king liked Esther more than any of the other women. Having won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins, she received the royal crown and was made queen in place of Vashti. (Esther 2, 17)
these dispatches were sent by couriers to all the royal provinces with the order to kill, destroy and wipe out all the Jews - young and old, women and children - on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month of Adar, and to plunder their goods. (Esther 3, 13)
The king's edict granted the Jews in each city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to kill, destroy and wipe out any armed group of any nation or province that might attack them and their women and children, and to seize their goods as spoil. (Esther 8, 11)
we hereby decree that all the people indicated in the letters of Haman, who is in charge of affairs and a second father to us, be utterly destroyed with women and children, by the sword, without mercy or consideration, on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month, Adar, of the present year, (Esther 13, 6)
The leaders and the elders groaned, young men and maidens lost courage, and women grew pale; (1 Maccabees 1, 26)
He took women and children captive and seized the livestock. (1 Maccabees 1, 32)
The women who, in defiance of the decree, had the rite of circumcision performed on their children, were put to death with their babies hung around their necks. (1 Maccabees 1, 60)
The king's men attacked them on that Sabbath, and they all died - men, women and children - a total of more than a thousand, not counting the livestock. (1 Maccabees 2, 38)
all our brothers living in the land of Tobias have been murdered, their women and children taken captives; about a thousand men have been killed." (1 Maccabees 5, 13)
Then he took away with him the Jews who were in Galilee and Arbatta as well as their women and children, and all they had, and brought them into Judea with great rejoicing. (1 Maccabees 5, 23)