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8221 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.55 (Ellen G. White Estate)
14 So the king commanded this to be done; the decree was issued in Shushan, and they hanged Haman’s ten sons.
8222 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.56 (Ellen G. White Estate)
15 And the Jews who were in Shushan gathered together again on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar and killed three hundred men at Shushan; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.Or Susa
8223 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.57 (Ellen G. White Estate)
16 The remainder of the Jews in the king’s provinces gathered together and protected their lives, had rest from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of their enemies; but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
8224 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.58 (Ellen G. White Estate)
17 This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. And on the fourteenth of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.Lit. it
8225 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.59 (Ellen G. White Estate)
18 But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day, as well as on the fourteenth; and on the fifteenth of the month they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.Or Susa Lit. it
8226 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.60 (Ellen G. White Estate)
19 Therefore the Jews of the villages who dwelt in the unwalled towns celebrated the fourteenth day of the month of Adar with gladness and feasting, as a holiday, and for sending presents to one another.
8227 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.61 (Ellen G. White Estate)
20 And Mordecai wrote these things and sent letters to all the Jews, near and far, who were in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus,
8228 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.62 (Ellen G. White Estate)
21 to establish among them that they should celebrate yearly the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar,
8229 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.63 (Ellen G. White Estate)
22 as the days on which the Jews had rest from their enemies, as the month which was turned from sorrow to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday; that they …
8230 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.64 (Ellen G. White Estate)
23 So the Jews accepted the custom which they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
8231 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.65 (Ellen G. White Estate)
24 because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them;
8232 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.66 (Ellen G. White Estate)
25 but when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.Lit. she or it Lit. his
8233 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.67 (Ellen G. White Estate)
26 So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had happened to them,Lit. Lot
8234 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.68 (Ellen G. White Estate)
27 the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and their descendants and all who would join them, that without fail they should celebrate these two days every year, according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time,
8235 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.69 (Ellen G. White Estate)
28 that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city, that these days of Purim should …
8236 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.70 (Ellen G. White Estate)
29 Then Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim.
8237 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.71 (Ellen G. White Estate)
30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews, to the one hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of peace and truth,
8238 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.72 (Ellen G. White Estate)
31 to confirm these days of Purim at their appointed time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had prescribed for them, and as they had decreed for themselves and their descendants concerning matters of their fasting and lamenting.
8239 NKJV Bible in 365 Days, p. 119.73 (Ellen G. White Estate)
32 So the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book.
8240 NKJV Bible in 365 Days
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