Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Esther 9:23
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, the first celebration having already taken place in an outburst of spontaneous joy, and as Mordecai had written unto them,
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, the first celebration having already taken place in an outburst of spontaneous joy, and as Mordecai had written unto them,
Verse Esther 9:23. _THE JEWS UNDERTOOK TO DO AS THEY HAD BEGUN_] They had already kept the _fifteenth_ day, and some of them in the country the _fourteenth_ also, as a day of rejoicing: Mordecai wrot...
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF ADAR AND THE FEAST OF PURIM CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The resistance and victory of the Jews (Esther 9:1)_ 2. Esther's petition (Esther 9:12) 3. The institution of Purim (Esther 9:17)...
THE JEWS SUCCESSFUL AGAINST THEIR ENEMIES. Adar 13th, the dreadful day, comes at last. What were the Jews to do? There were many partisans of Haman, some 500 at least in the city alone; there were tho...
_undertook_ assumed the obligation. _to do as they had begun_ to continue to keep the celebration on the fourteenth day of Adar. _and as Mordecai had written unto them_ i.e. to keep the celebration...
Mordecai's injunctions for the keeping of Purim 20. _And Mordecai wrote these things_ Mordecai's position as a Jew, who had attained to the office of grand vizier, seems to have been regarded as givin...
AND MORDECAI WROTE THESE THINGS, &C.— See the introductory note to this book. It is from the 20th verse that some have supposed Mordecai to have been the author of it: but it is very evident, that the...
B. Perpetuated TEXT: Esther 9:23-28 23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all...
_AND THE JEWS UNDERTOOK TO DO AS THEY HAD BEGUN, AND AS MORDECAI HAD WRITTEN UNTO THEM;_ No JFB commentary on these verses....
THE JEWS SLAY THEIR ENEMIES. INSTITUTION OF PURIM 3. All the rulers, etc.] The great massacre described in href='190 9:16'>Est 9:16 is thus represented as being in part the work of the Persian author...
AS THEY HAD BEGUN.. WRITTEN UNTO THEM] i.e. they undertook to celebrate both the day observed at first (href='190 9:17-18'>Est 9:17-18) and also the additional day suggested by Mordecai....
GOD IS IN CONTROL Book of Esther _ROBERT BRYCE_ CHAPTER 9 V1 The 13th day of the 12th month (the month called Adar) was the day to carry out the king’s law. This was the day when the enemies of t...
וְ קִבֵּל֙ הַ יְּהוּדִ֔ים אֵ֥ת אֲשֶׁר ־הֵחֵ֖ל
THE FEAST OF PURIM Esther 9:20; Esther 10:1 The Feast of Purim-so called from Esther 3:7 -was held on the 14th and 15th of Adar, our February. The whole of this book was read on the previous evening...
DELIVERANCE BY THE SWORD Esther 9:1 When the fateful day arrived, the Jews throughout the empire stood on the defense. As it appears from Esther 9:16, seventy-five thousand of their assailants fell i...
In this final section of the Book we have an account, first, of the arrival of the fateful day and all that happened thereon. It was a day when the changed conditions in the case of Haman and Mordecai...
(20) В¶ And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, (21) To stablish this among them, that they should...
The Feast of Purim I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week we saw that even though the king had Haman killed on the gallows he built for Mordecai, the damage he had done to the Jews was still in motion! 1. Es...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 10. The Book of Nehemiah has shewn us Judah reinstated in the land, but deprived of the presence of God, except as to general blessing, and unacknow...
AND THE JEWS UNDERTOOK TO DO AS THEY HAD BEGUN, AND AS MORDECAI HAD WRITTEN UNTO THEM. They engaged to keep these two days as festivals annually, as they had at this time done; not in a religious but...
And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; Ver. 28. _And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun_] Which yet they could not do unless God gave them a he...
_The Jews undertook to do as they had begun_ That is, to keep these days as festivals everywhere. Having by this means an opportunity of gathering themselves together, on any occasion, the chief of th...
THE JEWS VICTORIOUS (vv. 1-17) On the day prescribed in both decrees, when the enemies of the Jews expected to destroy all the Jews in the Persian empire, the tables were turned completely, for besi...
20-32 The observance of the Jewish feasts, is a public declaration of the truth of the Old Testament Scriptures. And as the Old Testament Scriptures are true, the Messiah expected by the Jews is come...
Having by this means opportunity to gather themselves together upon any occasion, the chief of them assembled together, and freely and unanimously consented to Mordecai's desire in this matter, and bo...
Esther 9:23 Jews H3064 accepted H6901 (H8765) custom H6213 (H8800) begun H2490 (H8689) Mordecai H4782 written...
CONTENTS: Vengeance executed; the Jews victorious. Feast of Purim instituted. CHARACTERS: Ahasuerus, Esther, Mordecai. CONCLUSION: When we have received signal mercies from God, we should be quick t...
Esther 9:1. _The enemies of the Jews._ The Chaldean paraphrase says that no nation appeared in arms against the Jews but Amalek; and these were infatuated to their own destruction. The troubles which...
_On the thirteenth day of the month Adar._ A NATIONAL MEMORIAL This national memorial-- I. Was established by supreme authority. II. Was approved by a grateful people. III. Was sanctioned by the...
ESTHER—NOTE ON ESTHER 9:23 PURIM. The Hebrew plural of PUR (see note on 3:7). Jews still keep the Feast of Purim today. THIS SECOND LETTER sugges
CRITICAL NOTES.] ESTHER 9:17. THEREFORE … THE FOURTEENTH DAY] Because the Jews outside of Shushan did all their fighting on the thirteenth, and rested on the fourteenth, as stated in Esther 9:17, THER...
EXPOSITION RESULT OF THE SECOND EDICT' THE JEWS RESIST THEIR ENEMIES, AND EFFECT A GREAT SLAUGHTER OF THEM, BUT DO NOT LAY HAN
So, when this day came, there in the city of Shushan, there were five hundred men that were slain by the Jews (Esther 9:6). Men who were seeking the evil of the Jews. And so they were able to take th...