9:19 This is why the Jews who are in the rural country – those who live in rural cities – set aside the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a holiday for happiness, banqueting, holiday, and sending gifts to one another.
Esther 2:9
2:9 This young woman pleased him, 1 and she found favor with him. He quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her rations; he also provided her with the seven specially chosen 2 young women who were from the palace. He then transferred her and her young women to the best quarters in the harem. 3
Esther 9:22
9:22 as the time when the Jews gave themselves rest from their enemies – the month when their trouble was turned to happiness and their mourning to a holiday. These were to be days of banqueting, happiness, sending gifts to one another, and providing for the poor.
1 tnHeb “was good in his eyes”; NLT “Hegai was very impressed with Esther.”
2 tnHeb “being looked at (with favor).”
3 tnHeb “of the house of the women” (so KJV, ASV). So also in vv. 11, 13, 14.