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Esther 9:18

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But the Jews in Susa had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. They rested on the fifteenth day of the month, and it became a day of feasting and rejoicing.

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He ordered  them to celebrate the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar every year


The Jews in Susa assembled again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar  and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they did not seize any plunder.


Esther answered, ‘If it pleases the king, may the Jews who are in Susa also have tomorrow  to carry out today’s law,  and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons  be hung on the gallows.’


The king’s command and law  went into effect on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month,  the month Adar. On the day when the Jews’ enemies  had hoped to overpower them, just the opposite happened. The Jews overpowered those who hated them.


On that day the number of people killed in the fortress of Susa was reported to the king.


The king’s edict gave the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate every ethnic and provincial army hostile to them, including women and children, and to take their possessions as spoils of war.


In each of King Ahasuerus’s provinces  the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who intended to harm them.  Not a single person could withstand them; fear of them  fell on every nationality.





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