What does Esther 9:21 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,"
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...
STABLISH. ordain. Hebrew. _kum,_ as in verses: Esther 9:29; Esther 9:31....
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 givi...
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...
XI. Purim Instituted, Esther 9:20-32 A. Practiced TEXT: Esther 9:20-22 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus,...
_TO STABLISH THIS AMONG THEM, THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH ADAR, AND THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME, YEARLY,_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
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...
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...
AND THE FIFTEENTH DAY OF THE SAME. — The Jews in the provinces had already made the fourteenth day a day of gladness and feasting. Mordecai now bids that the fifteenth also be so kept....
לְ קַיֵּם֮ עֲלֵיהֶם֒ לִ הְיֹ֣ות עֹשִׂ֗ים אֵ֠ת יֹ֣ום אַרְבָּעָ֤ה עָשָׂר֙ לְ חֹ֣דֶשׁ אֲדָ֔ר וְ...
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...
Receive. Protestants, "establish this among them, that they should keep the 14th....yearly," 2 Machabees xv. 37. (Haydock) --- None were obliged to keep more than one of these days, according to their...
(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 unackno...
TO STABLISH THIS AMONG THEM,.... That it might be a settled thing, and annually observed in all future generations, what they had now done: THAT THEY SHOULD KEEP THE FOURTEENTH DAY OF THE MONTH ADAR,...
To stablish [this] among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Ver. 21. _To establish this among them_] _sc._ By a law, that the...
_To establish this to keep the fourteenth day, and the fifteenth day of the month Adar_ The twelfth month; just a month before the passover. Thus the first and the last month of the year were kept in...
THE PURIM FESTIVAL INSTITUTED...
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 bes...
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...
Because both these days had been set apart this year, the latter at Shushan, the former in other parts; and because that great work of God, which was the ground of this solemnity, had been done both u...
Esther 9:21 establish H6965 (H8763) celebrate H6213 (H8802) yearly H8141 H8141 fourteenth H702 H6240 fifteenth H2568 H6240 days H3117 H3117 month H2320 Adar H143...
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...
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 HAND ON THEIR GOODS (Esther 9:1). The Jews of all the provinces, having had a...
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 t...