Esther 9:21

He told them to have a special party every year on the 14th and 15th days of the last month of the year to remember what happened when people tried to kill them.

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In The King James Version

To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

In Context

20More-dek-eye wrote down everything that happened and then he wrote a letter to all the Jewish people that lived everywhere in King Zerk-sees' country.

22More-dek-eye wrote that all the Jewish people had to remember how, in the last month of the year they were very sad, but then, after they beat their enemies they were really happy. He wrote that they should have a party at that same time every year. More-dek-eye said that they should give food to one another and give presents to people that have nothing.

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Cross References

Esther 3:7But Haman wanted to know the best time to kill all the Jews. In the Persian culture, there was a ceremony called Pur. In that ceremony, someone would drop special stones onto the ground. Then they would look at the stones and tell everyone the best day of the year to do whatever they were planning to do. So someone did that ceremony for Haman and said that the best time to kill all the Jews was in the last month of that 12th year. The Pur ceremony for Haman was done in the first month of the 12th year after Zerk-sees started to be the king of Persia.

Esther 9:18That is why Jewish people today that live in little communities outside the towns, have a party on the 14th day of the last month of the year. On that day they are all happy, they eat together and give each other presents. But the Jewish people in Susa killed their enemies on the 13th and the 14th day of the last month of the year. Then on the 15th day they stopped fighting. And so, on the 15th day of that month they all have a party and are really happy.

Matthew Henry on Esther 9:21-32

The Feast of Purim. ( b. c. 509.) 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21 To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, 22 As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and… Read the whole commentary →

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