Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
The fastings
Bible References
And for their seed
Esther 9:27
the Jews established and made a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all those who allied themselves with them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days according to their regulation and according to their appointed time annually.
The fastings
Esther 4:3
In each and every province where the command and decree of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
Jonah 3:2
“Arise, go to Nineveh the great city and proclaim to it the proclamation which I am going to tell you.”