They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
They have said, Come, and let us cut them off - let us extirpate them. Compare 2 Chronicles 20:7; 2 Chronicles 20:10-11 for the coincidence with the history. So Haman plotted to root out all the Jews (Esther 3:6; Esther 3:9), etc.