Esther 9:21

King James Version - American Edition

to establish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,

Cross References

Ezra 6:15

And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Dari´us the king.

Esther 3:7

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasue´rus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

Esther 9:17

on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9:18

But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Esther 9:20

And Mor´decai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasue´rus, both nigh and far,

Esther 9:22

as the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

Esther 9:27

the Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

Esther 9:29

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Ab´ihail, and Mor´decai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.