Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
This second letter of Purim - Mordecai’s first letter Est 9:20 was to some extent tentative, a recommendation. The Jews generally having accepted the recommendation Est 9:23, Est 9:27, he and Esther…
Adam Clarke
Esther - wrote with all authority - Esther and Mordecai had the king's license so to do: and their own authority was great and extensive.
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…
Further injunctions on the part of Esther and Mordecai
The Jews having readily agreed to the directions which Mordecai had given in the first letter, and expressed their readiness (Est 9:9) to accept…