
Text -- Esther 9:31 (NET)




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Wesley -> Est 9:31
Wesley: Est 9:31 - -- For those great calamities which were decreed to all the Jews, and for the removing of which, not only Esther, and the Jews in Shushan, but all other ...
For those great calamities which were decreed to all the Jews, and for the removing of which, not only Esther, and the Jews in Shushan, but all other Jews in all places, did doubtless fly to God by fasting, and strong cries.
Clarke -> Est 9:31
Clarke: Est 9:31 - -- As they had decreed for themselves and for their seed - There is no mention of their receiving the approbation of any high priest, nor of any author...
As they had decreed for themselves and for their seed - There is no mention of their receiving the approbation of any high priest, nor of any authority beyond that of Mordecai and Esther; the king could not join in such a business, as he had nothing to do with the Jewish religion, that not being the religion of the country.
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Barnes -> Est 9:31
Barnes: Est 9:31 - -- The matters of the fastings and their cry - The Jews of the provinces had added to the form of commemoration proposed by Mordecai certain obser...
The matters of the fastings and their cry - The Jews of the provinces had added to the form of commemoration proposed by Mordecai certain observances with respect to fasting and wailing, and Mordecai’ s second letter sanctioned these.
Poole -> Est 9:31
Poole: Est 9:31 - -- For or about those great and overwhelming calamities which were decreed to all the Jews, and for the removing of which, not only Esther, and the Jew...
For or about those great and overwhelming calamities which were decreed to all the Jews, and for the removing of which, not only Esther, and the Jews in Shushan, but all other Jews in all places, as soon as they heard those dismal tidings, did doubtless according to the precepts of Scripture, and the constant practice of their godly predecessors in all ages, fly to that last and only refuge of seeking to God by fasting, and earnest prayers, and strong cries unto God; which God was pleased graciously, to hear, and in answer thereunto to give them this amazing deliverance. And this was that which they were now to remember, to wit, the greatness of their danger, and of their rescue from it. And accordingly the Jews use to observe the first of those days with fasting, and crying, and other expressions of vehement grief and fear, and the latter with feasting, and thanksgiving, and all demonstrations of joy and triumph.
Haydock -> Est 9:31
Haydock: Est 9:31 - -- Fasts and cries. See ver. 21. (Calmet) ---
Protestants, "the matters of their fastings and their cry: and the decree of Esther confirmed these mat...
Fasts and cries. See ver. 21. (Calmet) ---
Protestants, "the matters of their fastings and their cry: and the decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book." (Haydock) ---
This feast, instituted by Mardochai, was accepted and observed by the Jews as a constitution agreeable to, and not contrary to the law, Deuteronomy iv. 2., and xii. 32. (Worthington)
Gill -> Est 9:31
Gill: Est 9:31 - -- To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed,.... The fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar:
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the que...
To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed,.... The fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar:
according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them; in the letters written and signed by them both:
and as they had decreed for themselves, and for their seed; see Est 9:27,
the matters of their fastings and their cry; in commemoration of their deliverance from those distresses and calamities which occasioned fastings and prayers during the time of them; and to this sense is the former Targum; though it is certain the Jews observe the thirteenth day, the day before the two days, as a fast, and which they call the fast of Esther y, and have prayers on the festival days peculiar to them; but the sense Aben Ezra gives seems best, that as the Jews had decreed to keep the fasts, mentioned in Zec 7:5, so they now decreed to rejoice in the days of Purim.

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