Esther 9:17

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• Esther 9:21
  …to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
• Esther 9:1
  On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.
• Esther 9:18
  The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and the fourteenth days of the month. So they rested on the fifteenth day, making it a day of feasting and joy.
• Esther 8:9
  At once the royal scribes were summoned, and on the twenty-third day of the third month (the month of Sivan), they recorded all of Mordecai’s orders to the Jews and to the satraps, governors, and princes of the 127 provinces from India to Cush—writing to each province in its own script, to every people in their own language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.
• Esther 3:12
  On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring.

People

Adar: The twelfth month of the Hebrew religious calendar

Glossary

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Book of Esther· Calendars (Ancient and Modern)· Hammedatha· Joy· Susa

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Entertainments: Given on Occasions of National Deliverance· Feasts: Celebrations by National Deliverances· Lots, Feast of Purim: The: Began Fourteenth of Twelfth Month· Lots, Feast of Purim: The: Mode of Celebrating· Month: Adar (March): Feast of Purim In