1Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the month, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to conquer them, (but it was turned out the opposite happened, that the Jews conquered those who hated them),

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Esther 8:12, Esther 8:12, Esther 3:13, Esther 3:13, Revelation 11:18

2the Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, to lay hands on those who wanted to harm them. No one could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen on all the people.

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Esther 8:17, Esther 8:17, Esther 8:11, Esther 8:11, Psalms 71:13

3All the princes of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those who did the king's business helped the Jews, because the fear of Mordecai had fallen on them.

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Ezra 8:36, Ezra 8:36, Esther 3:2, Esther 3:6, Daniel 3:2

4For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went out throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai grew greater and greater.

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1 Chronicles 11:9, 2 Samuel 3:1, 1 Chronicles 11:9, 2 Samuel 3:1, 1 Samuel 2:30

5The Jews struck all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they wanted to those who hated them.

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Psalms 18:34, Psalms 18:40, Jeremiah 18:21, Psalms 20:7, Psalms 20:8

6In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.

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Esther 3:15, Esther 3:15

7They killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,

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8Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,

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9Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,

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10the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jew's enemy, but they did not lay their hand on the plunder.

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Esther 5:11, Esther 8:11, Esther 5:11, Esther 8:11, Genesis 14:23

11On that day, the number of those who were slain in the citadel of Susa was brought before the king.

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12The king said to Esther the queen, "The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in the citadel of Susa, including the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? It shall be granted you. What is your further request? It shall be done."

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Esther 5:6, Esther 7:2, Esther 5:6, Esther 7:2

13Then Esther said, "If it pleases the king, let it be granted to the Jews who are in Shushan to do tomorrow also according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."

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Esther 8:11, Esther 8:11, Deuteronomy 21:23, Deuteronomy 21:23, Galatians 3:13

14The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

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15The Jews who were in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and killed three hundred men in Shushan; but they did not lay their hand on the spoil.

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Esther 9:10, Esther 8:11, Esther 9:10, Esther 8:11, Psalms 118:7

16The other Jews who were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, defended their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them; but they did not lay their hand on the plunder.

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Esther 8:11, Esther 8:11, Esther 9:2, Esther 9:2, Leviticus 26:7

17This was done on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of that month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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Esther 9:1, Esther 9:1, Esther 9:21, Esther 9:21, Esther 3:12

18But the Jews who were in Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth days of the month; and on the fifteenth day of that month, they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

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Esther 9:21, Esther 9:21, Esther 9:15, Esther 9:13, Esther 9:1

19Therefore the Judeans of the villages, who live in the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting, a good day, and a day of sending presents of food to one another.

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Esther 8:17, Esther 8:17, Deuteronomy 16:14, Revelation 11:10, Nehemiah 8:10

20Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews who were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both near and far,

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Deuteronomy 31:19, Deuteronomy 31:22, Esther 3:12, Psalms 124:1, Psalms 124:3

21to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month Adar yearly,

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22as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies, and the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.

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Psalms 30:11, Psalms 30:11, Isaiah 12:1, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 14:3

23The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them;

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24because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast "Pur," that is the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;

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Esther 3:5, Esther 3:13, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:13, Esther 9:10

25but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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Psalms 7:16, Psalms 7:16, Psalms 141:10, Esther 9:13, Esther 9:14

26Therefore they called these days "Purim," from the word "Pur." Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,

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Esther 9:20, Esther 9:20, Ezekiel 39:11, Numbers 16:40, Ezekiel 39:11

27the Jews established, and imposed on themselves, and on their descendants, and on all those who joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to what was written, and according to its appointed time, every year;

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Isaiah 56:6, Zechariah 2:11, Isaiah 56:6, Zechariah 2:11, Esther 8:17

28and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.

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Joshua 4:7, Exodus 13:8, Exodus 13:9, Psalms 78:5, Psalms 78:7

29Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim.

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Esther 9:20, Esther 9:20, Esther 2:15, Esther 2:15, Esther 8:10

30He sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,

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Esther 1:1, Esther 1:1, Esther 8:9, Esther 8:9, Isaiah 39:8

31to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had decreed, and as they had imposed upon themselves and their descendants, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

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Esther 4:3, Esther 4:3, Esther 4:16, Esther 4:16, Jonah 3:2

32The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.

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Esther 9:26, Esther 9:26