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Esther 9:17

in Esther 9

This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

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

KJV

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.

This verse in Esther 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also

on Esther 9:15-19

Shushan's second day, three hundred more, and the provinces' one day, seventy and five thousand of those that hated them, and twice more the refusal: on the prey they laid not their hand; they laid not their hands on the prey. The text calls it standing for their lives, defense under the decree's exact terms, and the two calendars fall out of the two campaigns: the villages rest and feast on the fourteenth, walled Shushan on the fifteenth, which is why Purim is kept on two days to this hour. The chapter's arithmetic of dates is the feast's founding charter.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers2 voices

A commentator

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

FESTAL LETTERS 4 · Written before 373.

proposed

When the whole nation of Israel was about to perish, blessed Esther defeated the tyrant's anger simply by fasting and praying to God. By faith she changed the ruin of her people into safety. Those days are feast days for Israel; they used to call a feast when an enemy was slain or a conspiracy against the people was broken up and Israel was delivered. That is why Moses established the Feast of the Passover: because Pharaoh was killed and the people were delivered from bondage. So then, especially when tyrants were slain, temporal feasts and holidays were established in Judea. Now, however, the devil, that tyrant against the whole world, is slain. Therefore, our feast does not relate only to time but to eternity. It is a heavenly feast! We do not announce it as a shadow or a picture or a type but as the real thing.

A commentator

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

FESTAL LETTERS 8 · Written before 373.

proposed

In the face of all this, brothers and sisters, what should we do but give thanks to God, the king of all? Let us start by crying out the words of the psalm, "Blessed is the Lord, who has not let them eat us up." Let us keep the feast in that way that he has established for our salvation—the holy day of Easter—so that we, along with the angels, may celebrate the heavenly feast. Remember that Israel, coming out of affliction to a state of rest, sang a song of praise for the victory as they kept the feast.

The Medieval Church1 voice

A commentator

Rabanus Maurus

Commentary on Esther · Written before 856.

proposed

Now, the Scripture tells us that some of the Jews carried out the killing of their enemies on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and stopped their slaughter on the fourteenth day when they held this festival; but that others carried out the …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

On the thirteenth day of the month Adar,....

The words behind it

14 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בְּיוֹם־on day

    beyom-H31172304 times

  • שְׁלֹשָׁ֥הthir-

    sheloshahH7969432 times

  • עָשָׂ֖רteen

    ʾasarH6240338 times

  • לְחֹ֣דֶשׁof [the] month of

    lechodeshH2320284 times

  • אֲדָ֑רAdar

    ʾadarH1438 times

  • וְנ֗וֹחַand they rested

    venoachH5117142 times

  • בְּאַרְבָּעָ֤הon [day] four-

    bearbaahH702318 times

  • עָשָׂר֙teen

    ʾasarH6240338 times

  • בּ֔וֹin it

    bo

  • וְעָשֹׂ֣הand they made

    veasohH62132628 times

  • אֹת֔וֹ<obj.> it

    ʾotoH85310935 times

  • י֖וֹםa day of

    yomH31172304 times

  • מִשְׁתֶּ֥הfeast

    mishtehH496046 times

  • וְשִׂמְחָֽה׃and joy

    vesimchahH805794 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    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,…

    it leads to

    • Esther 1:22

      He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Esther 1:1

      This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.

  • Through

    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,…

    it leads to

    • Esther 3:13

      And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on…

    • Esther 8:12

      The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

    • Psalms 30:11

      You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

    • Revelation 11:18

      The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…

    • Isaiah 14:1–2

      For the LORD will have compassion on Jacob; once again He will choose Israel and settle them in their own land. The foreigner will join them and unite with the house of Jacob.

  • Through

    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…

    it leads to

    • 1 Kings 21:8

      Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

Where this verse is studied

About Esther

Esther Before the King, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Esther Before the King, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Athanasius of Alexandria, FESTAL LETTERS 4; Athanasius of Alexandria, FESTAL LETTERS 8; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther and Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Esther.