1Now in the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king’s commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, in the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;) Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 3:13Esth 8:12Ps 30:11Rev 11:182 Sam 22:41Isa 14:1-2Isa 60:14-16Acts 12:11Deut 32:36Esth 3:7
2The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:17Esth 8:11Ps 71:13Ps 71:24Deut 2:30Esth 9:10Esth 9:15-18Exod 23:27Gen 35:5Isa 8:9
3And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the fear of Mordecai fell upon them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ezra 8:36Dan 3:2Dan 6:1-2Esth 3:12Esth 3:2-6Esth 8:5Esth 8:9
4For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater and greater. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 11:92 Sam 3:11 Chr 14:171 Sam 2:30Josh 6:27Prov 4:18Ps 1:3Ps 18:43Zeph 3:19Matt 4:24
5Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Jer 18:21Ps 149:6-9Ps 18:34-40Ps 18:47-48Ps 20:7-82 Thess 1:6
6And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 3:15
7And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, Many Bible Versions Ask AI
8And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, Many Bible Versions Ask AI
9And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha, Many Bible Versions Ask AI
10The ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, slew they; but on the spoil laid they not their hand. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 5:11Esth 8:11Gen 14:23Job 18:18-19Job 27:13-15Esth 3:1Esth 7:4Esth 7:6Esth 9:15-16Exod 17:16
11On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the palace was brought before the king. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
12And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 5:6Esth 7:2
13Then said Esther, If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews which are in Shushan to do to morrow also according unto this day’s decree, and let Haman’s ten sons be hanged upon the gallows. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:11Deut 21:232 Sam 21:62 Sam 21:9Esth 9:15Gal 3:13
14And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman’s ten sons. Many Bible Versions Ask AI
15For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:11Esth 9:101 Thess 5:22Esth 9:13Esth 9:16Esth 9:2Heb 13:5Ps 118:7-12
16But the other Jews that were in the king’s provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid not their hands on the prey, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:11Esth 9:2Lev 26:7-8
17On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:1Esth 9:21Esth 3:12Esth 8:9Esth 9:18
18But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:21Esth 9:1Esth 9:13Esth 9:15Esth 9:11
19Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, and a good day, and of sending portions one to another. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 8:17Deut 16:14Esth 9:22Neh 8:10-12Rev 11:10Deut 16:11Deut 3:5Luke 11:41Ps 118:11-16Zech 2:4
20And 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, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Cor 1:10-11Deut 31:19-22Esth 1:1Esth 1:22Esth 3:12Esth 8:9Exod 17:14Ps 124:1-3Ps 145:4-121 Chr 16:12
21To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly, Many Bible Versions Ask AI
22As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 30:11Esth 9:19Isa 12:1-2Isa 14:3Esth 3:12-13Gal 2:10Acts 2:44-46Exod 13:3-8John 16:20-22Matt 5:4
23And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; Many Bible Versions Ask AI
24Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 3:5-13Esth 9:10
25But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 7:16Esth 7:5-8:14Esth 9:13-14Matt 21:44Ps 109:17-18Ps 140:9Ps 141:10
26Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and which had come unto them, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:20Ezek 39:11Num 16:40
27The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year; Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Isa 56:6Zech 2:11Esth 8:17Isa 56:31 Sam 30:252 Sam 21:1-2Deut 29:14-15Deut 5:3Esth 9:21Josh 9:15
28And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 13:8-9Josh 4:7Ps 103:2Ps 78:5-7Exod 12:17Zech 6:14
29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:20Esth 2:15Esth 8:10Esth 3:15
30And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth, Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 1:1Esth 8:9Isa 39:8Zech 8:19
31To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, the matters of the fastings and their cry. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 4:3Esth 4:16Jonah 3:2-9
32And the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book. Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Esth 9:26