Thematic Bible: Of purim


Thematic Bible



They fought on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar and rested on the fourteenth, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing. Verse ConceptsMonth 12

because during those days the Jews got rid of their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday. They were to be days of feasting, rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and the poor. Verse ConceptsOvercoming EnemiesPeople Providing FoodRejoicing In God's Works

For this reason these days are called Purim, from the word Pur.

Because of all the instructions in this letter as well as what they had witnessed and what had happened to them, Verse ConceptsPurimthe anniversary FeastsCelebrationcelebrating

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