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Esther 9:18 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" The Jews in the city of Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness. "

Esther 9:18

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16 The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil.

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

18 The Jews in the city of Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness.

19 On this account then, the Jews dispersed in every foreign land keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, each sending gifts of food to his neighbor.

20 Mordecai wrote these things in a book and sent them to the Jews, as many as were in the kingdom of Ahasuerus, both those who were near and those who were far away,

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Related Verses

Esther 10:13

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"They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his people Israel."

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2 Maccabees 15:36

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"They all ordained with a common decree to in no way let this day pass undistinguished, but to mark with honor the thirteenth day of the twelfth month (it is called Adar in the Syrian language), the day before the day of Mordecai."

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1 Maccabees 4:59

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"Judas and his kindred and the whole congregation of Israel ordained that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their seasons from year to year for eight days, from the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev, with gladness and joy."

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Leviticus 23:39

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"“‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of the LORD seven days. On the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest."

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Luke 23:56

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"They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment."

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Ezra 6:22

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"and kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy; because the LORD had made them joyful, and had turned the heart of the king of Assyria to them, to strengthen their hands in the work of God, the God of Israel’s house."

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Esther 9:1

"Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month, which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived."

Esther 9:2

"In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them."

Esther 9:3

"For the chiefs of the local governors, and the princes and the royal scribes, honored the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai was upon them."

Esther 9:4

"For the order of the king was in force, that he should be celebrated in all the kingdom."

Esther 9:5

"The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them."

Esther 9:6

"In the city Susa the Jews killed five hundred men,"

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