Esther 9:17-28 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 9:1-19

We have here a decisive battle fought between the Jews and their enemies, in which the Jews were victorious. Neither side was surprised; for both had notice of it long enough before, so that it was a fair trial of skill between them. Nor could either side call the other rebels, for they were both supported by the royal authority. I. The enemies of the Jews were the aggressors. They hoped, notwithstanding the latter edict, to have power over them, by virtue of the former (Est. 9:1), and made... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - 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 the care and concern with which they expected it. How were their hearts enlarged with joy in God and his salvation, and what new songs of praise were put into their mouths! But here we are told what course they took to spread the knowledge of it among their people, and to perpetuate the remembrance... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:17

On the thirteenth day of the month Adar ,.... This belongs to the preceding verse; and the meaning is, that on this day the Jews gathered together and slew so many thousand of their enemies as before related: and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a feast of gladness : rejoicing that they were delivered out of the hand of their enemies, who hoped and expected on that day to have made an utter end of them; according to the Jewish canons F12 Lebush, c. 697.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:18

But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth day thereof ,.... Of the month Adar; that is, they gathered together to defend themselves, and destroy their enemies, on both these days, having the decree renewed for the fourteenth as they had for the thirteenth: and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness ; as the Jews in the provinces did on the fourteenth. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:19

Therefore the Jews of the villages, that dwelt in the unwalled towns, made the fourteenth day of the month Adar a day of gladness and feasting ,.... Jarchi observes that those in the villages, who are they that do not dwell in walled towns, observed the fourteenth, and they in towns surrounded with walls the fifteenth, as Shushan; and this circumvallation, he says, must be what was from the days of Joshua; according to the Jewish canons, every place that was walled from the days of Joshua... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:20

And Mordecai wrote these things ,.... The transactions of those two days, and the causes of them, as well as the following letter; some conclude from hence that he was the penman of the book; and so he might be, but it does not necessarily follow from hence: and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both nigh and far ; such as were near the city Shushan, and those that were at the greatest distance from it; these were more especially the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:21

To stablish this among them ,.... That it might be a settled thing, and annually observed in all future generations, what they had now done: that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly ; as the former had been observed by the Jews in the provinces, and both by those in Shushan, Esther 9:17 as festivals in commemoration of their great deliverance; hence the fourteenth of Adar is called the day of Mordecai, being established by... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:22

As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies ,.... Having slain all those that rose up against them, and assaulted them: and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning unto a good day ; for in this month Adar, on the thirteenth day of it, they expected to have been all destroyed, which had occasioned great sorrow and mourning in them; but beyond their expectation, in the same month, and on the selfsame day of the month, they had deliverance and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:23

And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them. They engaged to keep these two days as festivals annually, as they had at this time done; not in a religious but in a civil way, not as parts of religious worship, and as additions to and innovations of the law, but by way of commemoration of a civil benefit which they had received; and yet we find in later times that this was scrupled by some as an innovation; for we are told F18 T. Hieros. Megillah.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:24

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 one day: and had cast Pur, (that is, the lot,) to consume them, and to destroy them ; had cast lots to find out what would be the most lucky day in the year for him to do it on, and the most unlucky and unfortunate to the Jews; and, according to the lot, the thirteenth of Adar was pitched... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 9:1-19

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Esther 9:20-32

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:18

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:20

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Esther 9:24

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