Esther Chapter 9

• Esther 9:1
  Esther.
• Esther 9:2
  Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king’s commandment and his decree came near to be put ...
• Esther 9:3
  the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm the...
• Esther 9:4
  All the princes of the provinces, the local governors, the governors, and those who did the king’s business helped the Jews, because the fear of Morde...
• Esther 9:5
  For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces, for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.
• Esther 9:6
  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 9:7
  In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
• Esther 9:8
  They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
• Esther 9:9
  Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
• Esther 9:10
  Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,
• Esther 9:11
  the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.
• Esther 9:12
  On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.
• Esther 9:13
  The king said to Esther the queen, “The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what t...
• Esther 9:14
  Then Esther said, “If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Susa to do tomorrow also according to today’s decree, and let Hama...
• Esther 9:15
  The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Susa; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
• Esther 9:16
  The Jews who were in Susa gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Susa; but they di...
• Esther 9:17
  The other Jews who were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-fi...
• Esther 9:18
  This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
• Esther 9:19
  But the Jews who were in Susa assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, th...
• Esther 9:20
  Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a holida...
• Esther 9:21
  Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both near and far,
• Esther 9:22
  to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,
• Esther 9:23
  as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a ho...
• Esther 9:24
  The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
• Esther 9:25
  because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is...
• Esther 9:26
  but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own ...
• Esther 9:27
  Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen conc...
• Esther 9:28
  the Jews established and imposed on themselves, on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail that ...
• Esther 9:29
  and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Pu...
• Esther 9:30
  Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.
• Esther 9:31
  He sent letters to all the Jews in the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus with words of peace and truth,
• Esther 9:32
  to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves...
• Esther 9:33
  The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.