Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For the Jews there was light and gladness and joy and honor.

King James Version

The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honour.

Holman Bible

and the Jews celebrated with gladness, joy, and honor.

International Standard Version

For the Jewish people, there was light and joy, gladness and honor.

A Conservative Version

The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.

American Standard Version

The Jews had light and gladness, and joy and honor.

Amplified

For [at this time] the Jews had light [a dawn of new hope] and gladness and joy and honor.

Bible in Basic English

And the Jews had light and joy and honour.

Darby Translation

The Jews had light, and joy, and gladness, and honour.

Julia Smith Translation

There was to the Jews light and gladness and joy and honor.

King James 2000

The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor.

Lexham Expanded Bible

For the Jews, there was light and gladness, joy and honor.

Modern King James verseion

The Jews had light and gladness and joy and honor.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

but unto the Jews was come light and gladness, and joy, and worship.

NET Bible

For the Jews there was radiant happiness and joyous honor.

New Heart English Bible

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

The Emphasized Bible

To the Jews, had come light, and joy, - and gladness and honour.

Webster

The Jews had light, and gladness, and joy, and honor.

World English Bible

The Jews had light, gladness, joy, and honor.

Youngs Literal Translation

to the Jews hath been light, and gladness, and joy, and honour,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יהוּדי 
Y@huwdiy 
Usage: 75

אורה 
'owrah 
Usage: 4

and gladness
שׂמחה 
Simchah 
Usage: 93

and joy
שׂשׂן שׂשׂון 
Sasown 
Usage: 23

References

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Easton

Context Readings

Mordecai Is Promoted

15 Then Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal robes of blue and white, with a great golden crown and a robe of fine linen and purple, and the city of Susa shouted and rejoiced. 16 For the Jews there was light and gladness and joy and honor. 17 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king's command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Cross References

Psalm 97:11

Light is sown for the righteous, and joy for the upright in heart.

Esther 4:1-3

When Mordecai learned all that had been done, Mordecai tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and he cried out with a loud and bitter cry.

Esther 4:16

"Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I perish, I perish."

Esther 9:17

This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness.

Psalm 18:28

For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

Psalm 30:5-11

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Psalm 112:4

Light dawns in the darkness for the upright; he is gracious, merciful, and righteous.

Proverbs 4:18-19

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

Proverbs 11:10

When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish there are shouts of gladness.

Isaiah 30:29-30

You shall have a song as in the night when a holy feast is kept, and gladness of heart, as when one sets out to the sound of the flute to go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

Isaiah 35:10

And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

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