16 The rest of the Jews who were in the kingdom assembled, and helped one another, and obtained rest from their enemies; for they destroyed fifteen thousand of them on the thirteenth day of Adar, but took no spoil. (WEB) 17 They rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness. (WEB) 18 The Jews in the city of Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they also observed the fifteenth with joy and gladness. (WEB)
Greek Esther 9:16–18
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Esther 9:17–19
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 fifteen…
Greek Esther 10:12–14
12 God remembered his people and vindicated his inheritance. (WEB) 13 They shall observe these days in the month Adar, on the fourteenth and on the fifteenth day of the month, with an assembly, joy, and gladness before God, throughout the generations forever among his peo… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 7:47–49
47 The Jews took the spoils and the booty, and they cut off Nicanor’s head and his right hand, which he had stretched out so arrogantly, and brought them, and hung them up beside Jerusalem. (WEB) 48 The people were exceedingly glad, and they kept that day as a day of grea… (WEB)
Greek Esther 9:21–23
21 to establish these as joyful days and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar; (WEB) 22 for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and in that month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a h… (WEB)
Esther 9:21–23
21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar 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 t…
2 Chronicles 30:22–24
22 And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned portion, sacrificing fellowship offerings and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their fathers. 23 The whole assembly agreed to observe sev…
Esther 8:16–17
16 For the Jews it was a time of light and gladness, of joy and honor. 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 the…
Greek Esther 9:1–3
1 Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month, which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived. (WEB) 2 In that day, the adversaries of the Jews perished; for no one resisted, through fear of them. (WEB) 3 For the chiefs of the local governors, and the pr… (WEB)
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