Additions to Esther 9:22

22 These were the days on which the Jews had rid themselves of their enemies. The Jews were to observe the whole month as a holiday, for this was a month that had been turned from a time of grief and despair into a time of joy and happiness. They were told to observe these days with feasts and parties, giving gifts of food to friends and to the poor.

Additions to Esther 9:22 In-Context

20 Mordecai had these events written down in a book and sent it to all the Jews, near and far, throughout the Persian Empire,

21 telling them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar as holidays.

22 These were the days on which the Jews had rid themselves of their enemies. The Jews were to observe the whole month as a holiday, for this was a month that had been turned from a time of grief and despair into a time of joy and happiness. They were told to observe these days with feasts and parties, giving gifts of food to friends and to the poor.

23 So the Jews accepted all that Mordecai had written.

24 Mordecai had recorded how Haman son of Hammedatha, a Macedonian, had fought against the Jewish people, how he had made a decree and cast lots to determine the day he would destroy them,