Esther 9:18

And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness.

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In The King James Version

But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof; and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

In Context

17And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness.

19On this account then it is that the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a + 9:19 Gr. good day. holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

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Cross References

Esther 9:11and the number of them that perished in Susa was rendered to the king.

Esther 9:15And the Jews assembled in Susa on the fourteenth day of Adar, and killed three hundred men, but plundered no property.

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 →

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