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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Esther 9 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/esther/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/esther/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > Esther 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../esther/8.htm" title="Esther 8">◄</a> Esther 9 <a href="../esther/10.htm" title="Esther 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/esther/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">The Jews Prevail over Their Enemies</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar), on its thirteenth day, the edict of the king and his law were to be executed. It was on this day that the enemies of the Jews had supposed that they would gain power over them. But contrary to expectations, the Jews gained power over their enemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The Jews assembled themselves in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to strike out against those who were seeking their harm. No one was able to stand before them, for dread of them fell on all the peoples. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors and those who performed the king’s business were assisting the Jews, for the dread of Mordecai had fallen on them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Mordecai was of high rank in the king’s palace, and word about him was spreading throughout all the provinces. His influence continued to become greater and greater.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, bringing death and destruction, and they did as they pleased with their enemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In Susa the citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In addition, they also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>the ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews. But they did not confiscate their property.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>On that same day the number of those killed in Susa the citadel was brought to the king’s attention. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then the king said to Queen Esther, “In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Esther replied, “If the king is so inclined, let the Jews who are in Susa be permitted to act tomorrow also according to today’s law, and let them hang the ten sons of Haman on the gallows.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the king issued orders for this to be done. A law was passed in Susa, and the ten sons of Haman were hanged. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The Jews who were in Susa then assembled on the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, and they killed three hundred men in Susa. But they did not confiscate their property.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The rest of the Jews who were throughout the provinces of the king assembled in order to stand up for themselves and to have rest from their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of their adversaries, but they did not confiscate their property. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All of this happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar. They then rested on the fourteenth day and made it a day for banqueting and happiness.</p> <p class="title">The Origins of the Feast of Purim</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But the Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth days, and rested on the fifteenth, making it a day for banqueting and happiness. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Mordecai wrote these matters down and sent letters to all the Jews who were throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>to have them observe the fourteenth and the fifteenth day of the month of Adar each year <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>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.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So the Jews committed themselves to continue what they had begun to do and to what Mordecai had written to them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast <i>pur</i> (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But when the matter came to the king’s attention, the king gave written orders that Haman’s evil intentions that he had devised against the Jews should fall on his own head. He and his sons were hanged on the gallows. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For this reason these days are known as <i>Purim</i>, after the name of <i>pur</i>. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Therefore, because of the account found in this letter and what they had faced in this regard and what had happened to them, the Jews established as binding on themselves, their descendants, and all who joined their company that they should observe these two days without fail, just as written and at the appropriate time on an annual basis. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>These days were to be remembered and to be celebrated in every generation and in every family, every province, and every city. The Jews were not to fail to observe these days of Purim; the remembrance of them was not to cease among their descendants.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter about Purim. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Letters were sent to all the Jews in the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the empire of Ahasuerus – words of true peace – <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>to establish these days of Purim in their proper times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, and just as they had established both for themselves and their descendants, matters pertaining to fasting and lamentation. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Esther’s command established these matters of Purim, and the matter was officially recorded.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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