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Esther 9:23
23So the Jews accepted Mordecai’s proposal and adopted this annual custom.
Esther 9:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- New International Version (NIV)So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun, doing what Mordecai had written to them.
- English Standard Version (ESV)So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
Context of Esther 9:23
21calling on them to celebrate an annual festival on these two days. 22He told them to celebrate these days with feasting and gladness and by giving gifts of food to each other and presents to the poor. This would commemorate a time when the Jews gained relief from their enemies, when their sorrow was turned into gladness and their mourning into joy. So the Jews accepted Mordecai’s proposal and adopted this annual custom. 24Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews, had plotted to crush and destroy them on the date determined by casting lots (the lots were called purim). 25But when Esther came before the king, he issued a decree causing Haman’s evil plot to backfire, and Haman and his sons were impaled on a sharpened pole.
Read all of Esther 9Esther 9:23 word by word
וְקִבֵּל֙ הַיְּהוּדִ֔ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר־הֵחֵ֖לּוּ לַעֲשׂ֑וֹת וְאֵ֛ת אֲשֶׁר־כָּתַ֥ב מָרְדֳּכַ֖י אֲלֵיהֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Esther 9:23
- Esther 3:12So on April 17 the king’s secretaries were summoned, and a decree was written exactly as Haman dictated. It was sent to the king’s highest officers, the governors of the respective provinces, and the nobles of each province in their own scripts and languages. The decree was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the king’s signet ring.
- Exodus 13:3So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the Lord has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)
- Psalms 103:2Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things he does for me.
- Isaiah 12:1In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O Lord! You were angry with me, but not anymore. Now you comfort me.
- Isaiah 14:3In that wonderful day when the Lord gives his people rest from sorrow and fear, from slavery and chains,
- Psalms 30:11You have turned my mourning into joyful dancing. You have taken away my clothes of mourning and clothed me with joy,
- Matthew 5:4God blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
- John 16:20I tell you the truth, you will weep and mourn over what is going to happen to me, but the world will rejoice. You will grieve, but your grief will suddenly turn to wonderful joy.
- Esther 9:19So to this day, rural Jews living in remote villages celebrate an annual festival and holiday on the appointed day in late winter, when they rejoice and send gifts of food to each other.
- Nehemiah 8:10And Nehemiah continued, “Go and celebrate with a feast of rich foods and sweet drinks, and share gifts of food with people who have nothing prepared. This is a sacred day before our Lord. Don’t be dejected and sad, for the joy of the Lord is your strength!”
- Luke 11:41So clean the inside by giving gifts to the poor, and you will be clean all over.
- Acts 2:44And all the believers met together in one place and shared everything they had.
- Galatians 2:10Their only suggestion was that we keep on helping the poor, which I have always been eager to do.
Commentaries on Esther 9:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23The Jews undertook to do as they had begun - They had already kept the fifteenth day, and some of them in the country the fourteenth also, as a day of rejoicing: Mordecai wrote to them to bind themselves and their successors, and all their proselytes, to celebrate this as an annual feast throughout all their generations; and this they undertook to do. And it has been observed among them, in all places of their dispersion, from that day to the present…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 20-32Verses 20-32 The observance of the Jewish feasts, is a public declaration of the truth of the Old Testament Scriptures. And as the Old Testament Scriptures are true, the Messiah expected by the Jews is come long ago; and none but Jesus of Nazareth can be that Messiah. The festival was appointed by authority, yet under the direction of the Spirit of God. It was called the feast of Purim, from a Persian word, which signifies a lot. The name of this festival…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 23-26These verses summarize the events that lead to the Festival of Purim.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 20-3220. Mordecai wrote these things--Commentators are not agreed what is particularly meant by "these things"; whether the letters following, or an account of these marvellous events to be preserved in the families of the Jewish people, and transmitted from one generation to another.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Esther 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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