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 bound themselves, their descendants, and all who joined with them to a commitment that they would not fail to celebrate these two days each and every year according to the written instructions and according to the time appointed.
The fastings
Esther 4:3
There was great mourning among the Jewish people in every province where the king’s command and edict came. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay on sackcloth and ashes.
Jonah 3:2
“Get up! Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach the message that I tell you.”