Esther 9:19-22

9:19

happiness <08057> [gladness.]

sending gifts <04490 04916> [sending portions.]

The eastern princes and people not only invite their friends to feasts, but it is their custom to send a portion of the banquet to those that cannot well attend, especially their relations, and those in a state of mourning. Thus, when the Grand Emir found that it incommoded M. D'Arvieux to eat with him, he desired him to take his own time for eating, and sent him from his kitchen what he liked best.

9:20

Mordecai <04782> [Mordecai.]

That is, as the words imply, the history contained in this book; and not merely the letters afterwards mentioned, as some understand it.

wrote ... matters <03789 01697> [wrote these.]

provinces <04082> [in all the provinces.]

9:22

time ......................... holiday ...... days <03117> [the days.]

trouble <03015> [from sorrow.]

sending gifts <04490 04916> [sending portions.]