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 it a custom for themselves and for their descendants and for all who joined them, so that they would not fail to celebrate these two days as it was written and at the appointed time annually.
The fastings
Esther 4:3
In each and every province that the decree and law of the king reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing; and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
Jonah 3:2
“Go to Nineveh the great city and declare to it the message which I am going to tell you.”