Esther 9:16
“But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey,”
KJV
Read in Esther 9Meaning
The enormous number makes the violence impossible to sentimentalize; the text presents a large-scale ancient conflict tied to the prior extermination threat, not a general warrant for violence.