Esther 9:23
21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them.
25 But when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- So the Jews agreed to continue the custom they had started, as Mordecai had written to them.
- KJV
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- WEB
- The Jews accepted the custom that they had begun, as Mordecai had written to them,
- ASV
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them;
- DARBY
- And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written to them.
- BLB
- And the Jews received that which they had begun to do, and what Mordecai wrote to them,
- ÅB
- Jødene vedtok som fast skikk hva de hadde begynt å gjøre, og hva Mordekai hadde skrevet til dem om;
- OTB
- Så jødene ble enige om å fortsette feiringen de hadde begynt, slik Mordekai hadde skrevet til dem.
- B1930
- Jødene vedtok som fast skikk hvad de hadde begynt å gjøre, og hvad Mordekai hadde skrevet til dem om;