Esther 9:20
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces ruled by King Xerxes, near and far,
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21requiring them to celebrate every year the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
Cross References
Deuteronomy 31:19So write down this song and teach it to the Israelites. Help them learn to sing it, so it will provide evidence for me against them.
Esther 1:1This is an account of what happened during the time of King Xerxes, the Xerxes who ruled over 127 provinces from India to Ethiopia.
Esther 3:12On the thirteenth day of the first month the king's secretaries were summoned. A decree was issued in accordance with everything Haman demanded and sent to the king's chief officers, the governors of the different provinces and the nobles of the various peoples in the provinces. It was sent in the script of each province and in the language of every people, with the authorization of King Xerxes and sealed with his signet ring.
Psalms 124:1If the Lord hadn't been for us, what would have happened? Let everyone in Israel say:
2 Corinthians 1:10He saved us from a terrible death, and he will do so again. We have total confidence in God that he will continue to save us.
Matthew Henry on Esther 9:2-20
The Jews Avenged. ( b. c. 509.) 1 Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) 2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man… Read the whole commentary →