Thematic Bible
Esther 9:1 (show verse)
And in the twelfth month (this the month Adar) in the thirteenth day in it, when the word of the king drew near, and his edict to do in the day that the enemies of the Jews expected to have power over them, (and it was turned that these Jews will have power over those hating them:)
Esther 9:2 (show verse)
The Jews were gathered together in their cities in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to stretch forth the hand upon those seeking their evil: and a man stood not before them, for their fear fell upon all the peoples.
Esther 9:3 (show verse)
And all the chiefs of the provinces, and the satraps, and the prefects, and those doing the work that was for the king, were lifting up with the Jews; for the fear of Mordecai fell upon them:
Esther 9:4 (show verse)
For great was Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame went into all the provinces: for the man Mordecai went and was magnified
Esther 9:5 (show verse)
And the Jews will strike against all their enemies with the blow of the sword, and killing and destruction; and they will do according to their desire upon those hating them.
Esther 9:6 (show verse)
And in Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther 9:7 (show verse)
Parshandatha and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther 9:8 (show verse)
And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Esther 9:9 (show verse)
And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai. and Vajezatha,
Esther 9:10 (show verse)
The ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the Jews' enemy, they slew; and upon the prey they stretched not out their hand.
Esther 9:11 (show verse)
In that day came the number of those slain in Shushan the fortress before the king.
Esther 9:12 (show verse)
And the king will say to Esther the queen, In Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men, and the ten sons of Haman: in the rest of the king's provinces what did they? and what thy asking? and it shall be given to thee: and what more thy seeking? and it shall be done.
Esther 9:13 (show verse)
And Esther will say, If good to the king, it shall be given also to-morrow to the Jews that are in Shusan to do according to the edict of the day, and they shall hang Haman's ten sons upon the tree.
Esther 9:14 (show verse)
And the king will say to do this. And the edict will be given in Shushan; and they hung the ten sons of Haman.
Esther 9:15 (show verse)
For the Jews that were in Shushan will gather together also in the fourteenth day to the month Adar, and they will kill in Shushan three hundred men; and upon the prey they sent not the hand.
Esther 9:16 (show verse)
And the rest of the Jews which were in the king's provinces gathered together and stood for their soul, and rested from their enemies, and slew among their enemies five and seventy thousand; and upon the prey they sent not their hand.
Esther 9:17 (show verse)
In the thirteenth day to the month Adar, and resting in the fourteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness.
Entertainments » Given on occasions of » National deliverance
Feast » Of purim
Feast of Purim » Mode of celebrating
Feast of Purim » Began fourteenth of twelfth month
Feasts » Of tabernacles
Feasts » Celebrations by » National deliverances
Hebrew » Of tabernacles
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Feast of Purim » Adar (march) » Deliverance » Jews » Haman
Feast » Of purim
Feast of Purim » Mode of celebrating
Feast of Purim » Began fourteenth of twelfth month
Feasts » Of tabernacles
Feasts » Celebrations by » National deliverances
Hebrew » Of tabernacles
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Feast of Purim » Adar (march) » Deliverance » Jews » Haman
Esther 9:18 (show verse)
And the Jews that were in Shushan were assembled in the thirteenth in it, and in the fourteenth in it; and resting in the fifteenth in it, and making it a day of drinking and gladness.
Esther 9:19 (show verse)
For this the Jews of the villages and in cities of the open country making the fourteenth day to the month Adar, gladness and drinking, and a good day, and sending portions a man to his neighbor.
Days » A time of festivity called a » Good day
Entertainments » Portions of, often sent to the absent
Entertainments » Given on occasions of » National deliverance
Feast of Purim » Mode of celebrating
Feasts » Celebrations by » National deliverances
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Presents » Were given » On all occasions of public rejoicing
Entertainments » Portions of, often sent to the absent
Entertainments » Given on occasions of » National deliverance
Feast of Purim » Mode of celebrating
Feasts » Celebrations by » National deliverances
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Presents » Were given » On all occasions of public rejoicing
Esther 9:20 (show verse)
And Mordecai will write these words, and send letters to all the Jews that were in all the king Ahasuerus's provinces, near and far off,
Esther 9:21 (show verse)
To set up to them to be doing the fourteenth day to the month Adar, and the fifteenth day in it, in every year and year,
Esther 9:22 (show verse)
As the days which the Jews rested in them from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from grief to gladness, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of drinking and gladness, and sending portions a man to his neighbor, and gifts to the needy.
Esther 9:23 (show verse)
And the Jews admitting what they began to do, and what Mordecai wrote to them.
Esther 9:24 (show verse)
For Haman son of Hammedatha the Amite, oppressing all the Jews, purposed against the Jews to destroy them, and he cast Pur (this the lot) to discomfit them and to destroy them;
Esther 9:25 (show verse)
And in her coming before the king, he said by letter he will turn back his purpose of evil that he purposed against the Jews upon his head: and they hung him and his sons upon the tree.
Evil » Devices » Will be defeated
Feast of Purim » To commemorate the defeat of haman's wicked design
Gallows » Used for execution of criminals
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Plans of men » Devices, evil » Will be defeated
Purim » Feast
Retribution » Examples of
The wicked » Devices of » Will be defeated
Feast of Purim » To commemorate the defeat of haman's wicked design
Gallows » Used for execution of criminals
Month » Adar (march) » Feast of purim in
Plans of men » Devices, evil » Will be defeated
Purim » Feast
Retribution » Examples of
The wicked » Devices of » Will be defeated
Esther 9:26 (show verse)
For this they called to these days Purim, for the name of Pur. For this upon all the words of this epistle, and What they saw upon this, and what came to them,
Esther 9:27 (show verse)
The Jews set up and admitted upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all joining themselves to them, and they shall not pass by to be doing these two days according to their writing, and according to their time in every year and year;
Esther 9:28 (show verse)
And these days being remembered and done in every generation and generation, family and family, province and province, city and city; and these days of the lots shall not pass by from the midst of the Jews, and their remembrance shall not be ended from their seed.
Esther 9:29 (show verse)
And Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, will write with all power to set up the epistle of Purim, this second.
Esther 9:30 (show verse)
And he will send the letter to all the Jews, to the seventy and twenty and a hundred provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,
Esther 9:31 (show verse)
To set up these days of Purim in their times, as Mordecai the Jew set up to them, and Esther the queen, and as they set up for their souls and for their seed, the words of fastings and their cry:
Esther 9:32 (show verse)
And the saying of Esther set up these words of Purim; and it was written in the book.