Esther 9:27

English Standard Version 2016

the Jews firmly obligated themselves and their offspring and all who joined them, that without fail they would keep these two days according to what was written and at the time appointed every year,

Cross References

Zechariah 2:11

And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. And I will dwell in your midst, and you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

Isaiah 56:6

“And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—

Isaiah 56:3

Let not the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say, “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Behold, I am a dry tree.”

Esther 8:17

And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and a holiday. And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Zechariah 8:23

Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

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,

1 Samuel 30:25

And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.

Joshua 9:15

And Joshua made peace with them and made a covenant with them, to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore to them.

Deuteronomy 5:3

Not with our fathers did the Lord make this covenant, but with us, who are all of us here alive today.

Esther 9:20

And Mordecai recorded these things and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

Esther 9:28

that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, in every clan, province, and city, and that these days of Purim should never fall into disuse among the Jews, nor should the commemoration of these days cease among their descendants.

Numbers 15:15

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who sojourns with you, a statute forever throughout your generations. You and the sojourner shall be alike before the Lord.

Judges 11:40

that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

Psalm 78:7

so that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Isaiah 2:3

and many peoples shall come, and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of the God of Jacob, that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.” For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.

Ezekiel 16:61

Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you.