Esther 9:31

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen. This was in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their descendents, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.

Esther 4:3

Throughout all the provinces, wherever the king's proclamation was made known, there was loud mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, wailed, and most of them put on sackcloth and lay in ashes.

Esther 4:16

Go assemble all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me. Take no food or drink night or day for three days. My women and I will do the same. Then I will go in to the king even though it is against the law. If death is to be my fate, then let it come.

Jonah 3:2-9

Arise and go to the great city, Nineveh. Proclaim to it the proclamation I give you.

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Summary

Esther 9:31

To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry.

And for their seed

Esther 9:27

The fastings

Esther 4:3

Jonah 3:2

Bible References

And for their seed

The Jews made a rule and established a custom that all their descendents should observe two days every year as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year.

The fastings

Throughout all the provinces, wherever the king's proclamation was made known, there was loud mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, wailed, and most of them put on sackcloth and lay in ashes.

Arise and go to the great city, Nineveh. Proclaim to it the proclamation I give you.