Esther 9:19

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Esther 9:17–21 · Berean Standard Bible

17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.

19 This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.

20 Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,

21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar

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Esther 9:22

as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Esther 8:17

In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

Deuteronomy 16:11

and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Deuteronomy 16:14

And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

Nehemiah 8:10

Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”

Nehemiah 8:11

And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”

Nehemiah 8:12

Then all the people began to eat and drink, to send out portions, and to rejoice greatly, because they understood the words that had been made known to them.

Psalms 118:11

They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:12

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Psalms 118:13

I was pushed so hard I was falling, but the LORD helped me.

Psalms 118:14

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation.

Psalms 118:15

Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!

Psalms 118:16

The right hand of the LORD is exalted! The right hand of the LORD performs with valor!”

Luke 11:41

But give as alms the things that are within you, and you will see that everything is clean for you.

Revelation 11:10

And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them, and will celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.