Esther 9:22

English Standard Version 2016

as the days on which the Jews got relief from their enemies, and as the month that had been turned for them from sorrow into gladness and from mourning into a holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, days for sending gifts of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

Cross References

Psalm 30:11

You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; you have loosed my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

Galatians 2:10

Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

Isaiah 14:3

When the Lord has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard service with which you were made to serve,

Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in the rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and as a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.

Luke 11:41

But give as alms those things that are within, and behold, everything is clean for you.

Matthew 5:4

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

Psalm 103:2

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Revelation 11:10

and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

1 Samuel 25:8

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

Esther 9:21

obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

Esther 9:23

So the Jews accepted what they had started to do, and what Mordecai had written to them.

Deuteronomy 15:7

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother,

Deuteronomy 16:14

You shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are within your towns.

Deuteronomy 16:15

For seven days you shall keep the feast to the Lord your God at the place that the Lord will choose, because the Lord your God will bless you in all your produce and in all the work of your hands, so that you will be altogether joyful.

Psalm 30:12

that my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Psalm 37:15

their sword shall enter their own heart, and their bows shall be broken.

Psalm 149:7

to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,

Zechariah 8:19

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month and the fast of the fifth and the fast of the seventh and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Judah seasons of joy and gladness and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.