Esther 8:11

Wherein the king granted the Jews which [were] in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for (h) their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, [both] little ones and women, and [to take] the spoil of them for a prey,

(h) That is, to defend themselves against all who would assail them.