Esther 9:4
-5 For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom.
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Joshua 6:27And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was in all the land.
2 Samuel 3:1And there was war for a long time between the house of Saul and the house of David; and the house of David grew continually stronger; but the house of Saul grew continually weaker.
1 Chronicles 14:17And the name of David was famous in all the land; and the Lord put the terror of him on all the nations.
Proverbs 4:18But the ways of the righteous shine like light; they go on and shine, until the day + 4:18 Gr. order itself aright. be fully come.
Zephaniah 3:19Behold, I will work in you for your sake at that time, says the Lord: and I will save her that was oppressed, and receive her that was rejected; and I will make them a praise, and honored in all the earth.
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 →