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Esther 9:22 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a holiday, to spend the whole of it in good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor. "

Esther 9:22

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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,

21 to establish these as joyful days and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;

22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a holiday, to spend the whole of it in good days of feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends and to the poor.

23 And the Jews consented to this as Mordecai wrote to them,

24 showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to destroy them utterly;

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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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Esther 8:12

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"on one day in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus, on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is Adar."

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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 7:49

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"They ordained to keep this day year by year on the thirteenth day of Adar."

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2 Maccabees 10:8

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"They ordained also with a public statute and decree, for all the nation of the Jews, that they should observe these days every year."

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1 Maccabees 10:34

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"“All the feasts, the Sabbaths, new moons, appointed days, three days before a feast, and three days after a feast, let them all be days of immunity and release for all the Jews who are in my kingdom."

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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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