Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, on Esth 9:5

“So the Jews made a great slaughter of their enemies, and killed them, repaying according to what they had prepared to do to them:”

“Thus the Jews smote all their enemies--The effect of the two antagonistic decrees was, in the meantime, to raise a fierce and bloody war between the Jews and their enemies throughout the Persian empire; but through the dread of Esther and Mordecai, the provincial governors universally favored their cause, so that their enemies fell in great numbers.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.