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Esther 9:22

Esther 9:22
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them,.... Had formed a design to exterminate them from the whole Persian empire in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Esther 9:20-32

We may well imagine how much affected Mordecai and Esther were with the triumphs of the Jews over their enemies, and how they saw the issue of that decisive day with a satisfaction proportionable to…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

as the days … a good day This has the character of a parenthesis, the preceding clause being taken up again in the words -that they should make them" etc.