And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
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Gill's Exposition
But when Esther came before the king,.... To request of him her life, and the life of her people:
he commanded by letters, that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return…
Adam Clarke
The Jews undertook to do as they had begun - They had already kept the fifteenth day, and some of them in the country the fourteenth also, as a day of rejoicing: Mordecai wrote to them to bind…
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…
Cambridge Bible
undertook assumed the obligation.
to do as they had begun to continue to keep the celebration on the fourteenth day of Adar.
and as Mordecai had written unto them i.e. to keep the celebration on the…