Esther 9:31

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordekhai the Jew and Ester the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu: and all the singing men and singing women spoke of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations to this day; and they made them an ordinance in Yisra'el: and behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Esther 4:16

*Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish.*

Esther 4:3

In every province, wherever the king's mitzvah and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.