Esther 9:22

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

because during those days the Jews gained relief from  their enemies. That was the month when their sorrow was turned into rejoicing and their mourning into a holiday.  They were to be days of feasting,  rejoicing, and of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.

Cross References

Galatians 2:10

They asked only that we would remember the poor,  which I had made every effort to do.

Isaiah 14:3

When the Lord gives you rest from your pain,  torment, and the hard labour  you were forced to do,

Esther 9:19

This explains why the rural Jews who live in villages observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a time of rejoicing and feasting. It is a holiday when they send gifts to one another.

Luke 11:41

But give from what is within to the poor,   , and then everything is clean   for you.

Matthew 5:4

Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

Revelation 11:10

Those who live on the earth will gloat  over them and celebrate and send gifts to one another because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth.

1 Samuel 25:8

Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favour with you, for we have come on a feast  day.  Please give whatever you have on hand to your servants and to your son David.” ’

Esther 9:21

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

Esther 9:23

So the Jews agreed to continue the practice they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them.

Deuteronomy 15:7

‘If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your city gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted towards your poor brother.

Deuteronomy 16:14

Rejoice during your festival #– #you, your son and daughter, your male and female slave, as well as the Levite, the resident foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow within your city gates.

Deuteronomy 16:15

You are to hold a seven-day festival for the Lord your God in the place he chooses, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands,  and you will have abundant joy.

Zechariah 8:19

The Lord of Armies says this: ‘The fast of the fourth month,  the fast of the fifth, the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth  will become times of joy, gladness, and cheerful festivals for the house of Judah. Therefore, love truth and peace.’