Esther 8:11
“Wherein the king granted the Jews which were in every city to gather themselves together, 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, both little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,”
KJV
Read in Esther 8Meaning
The decree gives the Jews legal authority to organize for self-defense against violent attack. The verse describes the scope of that authorization rather than a general command for indiscriminate violence.