Esther 8:11

wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, such an act not being accounted a disturbance of the peace, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, whose enmity would cause them to make use of the provisions of Haman's decree, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,