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 firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

The fastings

Esther 4:3
And in every province, wherever the king's command and his decree reached, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting and weeping and lamenting, and many of them lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Jonah 3:2
"Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and call out against it the message that I tell you."

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