11. wherein the king granted the Jews (in what cities soever they were) to gather them selves together, and to stand for their life, (To stand for their life is a manner of speaking familiar to the Hebrews, for that we say, to defend their lives, and shift them selves from the cruel persecution of their enemies) and for to root out, to slay and to destroy all the power of the people and land that would trouble them, with children and women, and to spoil their good