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Esther 9:28

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These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and 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 remembrance of them perish from their seed.

KJV

And 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 memorial of them perish from their seed.

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This verse in Esther 9

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

had cast Pur, that is, the lot

on Esther 9:24-28

The recap names the feast: Haman cast Pur, the lot, to consume them, and the days are called PURIM after the very instrument of the plot, chance enthroned as a calendar of deliverance, the mockery built into the name itself. The ordinance binds their seed and all such as joined themselves unto them, the proselyte door open in the feast's own charter, and 9:28 reaches as far as any verse in the book: these days should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed. It has not; Purim is kept to this day with this book read aloud, and the page says so under the site's honoring rule.

The record, by era

The Medieval Church2 voices

A commentator

Rabanus Maurus

Commentary on Esther · Written before 856.

proposed

So the days of lots—on which God gives his true followers victory over their enemies—will never fall into oblivion, but will be celebrated throughout the world in every generation since each of the faithful must declare, with firm hope, the coming rest of souls and …

A commentator

Rabanus Maurus

EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 13 · Written before 856.

proposed

The fateful days in which God gives the victory over the enemies to his true confessors must never be forgotten but must be celebrated all over the world by every generation, because the remembrance of the future rest of souls and of the resurrection of …

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

12 And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

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How the passage was read

On Esther 9:20-32

On Esther 9:20-32

The feast this book founds

These verses are the founding charter of Purim, the one feast instituted inside the canon's own narrative books. Its name comes from the “pur,” the lot Haman cast for Israel's destruction. The text itself names the three practices that still define the day: feasting and gladness, sending portions of food to one another, and gifts to the poor (9:22). To this day the whole book of Esther, called the Megillah (“scroll”), is read aloud in the synagogue, with the congregation drowning out Haman's name with noisemakers; the day is kept with costumes, feasting, food baskets to friends, and charity.

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Sources: Mishnah Megillah 1:1 (the scroll reading) · Esther 9:22 (the three practices, in the text itself)

The words behind it

24 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.

  • וְהַיָּמִ֣יםand the days

    vehaiyamimH3117 →2304 times

  • הָ֠אֵלֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • נִזְכָּרִ֨ים[were] remembered

    nizkarimH2142 →

  • וְנַעֲשִׂ֜יםand observed

    venaasimH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּכָל־in every

    bekholH3605 →5413 times

  • דּ֣וֹרgeneration

    dorH1755 →

  • וָד֗וֹרand generation

    vadorH1755 →

  • מִשְׁפָּחָה֙clan

    mishpachahH4940 →

  • וּמִשְׁפָּחָ֔הand clan

    umishpachahH4940 →

  • מְדִינָ֥הprovince

    medinahH4082 →53 times

  • וּמְדִינָ֖הand province

    umedinahH4082 →53 times

  • וְעִ֣ירand city

    veirH5892 →1090 times

  • וָעִ֑ירand city

    vairH5892 →1090 times

  • וִימֵ֞יand [the] days of

    vimeiH3117 →2304 times

  • הַפּוּרִ֣יםthe Purim

    hapurimH6332 →8 times

  • הָאֵ֗לֶּה<the> these

    haelehH428 →746 times

  • לֹ֤אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • יַֽעַבְרוּ֙they will pass away

    yaavruH5674 →556 times

  • מִתּ֣וֹךְfrom among

    mitokhH8432 →

  • הַיְּהוּדִ֔יםthe Jews

    haiyehudimH3064 →75 times

  • וְזִכְרָ֖םand remembrance their

    vezikhramH2143 →

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יָס֥וּףit will cease

    yasufH5486 →

  • מִזַּרְעָֽם׃ סfrom offspring their

    mizaramH2233 →229 times

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

Related verses

7 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Psalms 78:5–7For He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers to teach to their children,3 worksPsalms 103:2Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—3 worksJoshua 4:7you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”3 worksExodus 13:8–9And on that day you are to explain to your son, ‘This is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.’3 worksPsalms 78:6that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children3 worksZechariah 6:14The crown will reside in the temple of the LORD as a memorial to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the gracious son of Zephaniah.2 works
The other 1 cross-references, with their words ▾
Exodus 12:17So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.2 works

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

    Psalms 103:2

    Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 63:7

      I will make known the LORD’s loving devotion and His praiseworthy acts, because of all that the LORD has done for us—the many good things for the house of Israel according to His great…

    • Psalms 116:12

      How can I repay the LORD for all His goodness to me?

    • Psalms 105:5

      Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,

    • Luke 17:15–18

      When one of them saw that he was healed, he came back, praising God in a loud voice.

    • Deuteronomy 6:12

      be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  • Through

    Joshua 4:7

    you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these…

    it leads to

    • Exodus 12:14

      And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Exodus 28:12

      Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 16:40

      just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the…

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.
Esther: the study guide →Read Esther 9 →

This page draws on Alfred Edersheim, Bible History: Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil, The Books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Rabanus Maurus, Commentary on Esther and Rabanus Maurus, EXPLANATION ON THE BOOK OF ESTHER 13.

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