Just as in Ezekiel 39 and 39 Gog is to attack when God's people are dwelling securely in the land (Ezek 38:11), so in the Book of Esther were the Jews living in a time of peace. Yet young and old, women and children, they were all to be annihilated and their goods plundered (Est 3:13) by the forces of the Persians, the rulers of the "127 provinces stretching from India to Cush" (Est 1:1), even as the hordes of Gog had similar intentions (Ezek 38:12). Eventually granted the right to defend themselves against their enemies and to plunder the property (Est 8:11) of those who sought to plunder them (3:13), the Jews in Esther's time did not lay their hands on any spoils (Est 9:10,16). The servants of God have the same prerogative with regard to the fallen of Gog, yet seem not to literally avail themselves of this, except to use their discarded weapons as firewood for the next seven years (39:9-10):