Yǐsītièjì 9:29

29 Yà bǐ hái de nǚér wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ , hé Yóudà rén Mòdǐgǎi yǐ quánquán xiĕ dì èr fēng xìn , jiān zhǔ Yóudà rén shǒu zhè pǔ ĕr rì .

Yǐsītièjì 9:29 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 9:29

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai
the Jew, wrote with all authority
Strongly pressing the observance of this festival; before, Mordecai only recommended it, but now the queen gave a sanction to it, and laid her obligation on the Jews to observe it; perhaps some of the Jews were backward to it, or neglected to observe it, and therefore Esther and Mordecai joined in a letter to them, to press them to it; the Jewish chronologer ^F24 says, this was written the year following; the former Targum is, they wrote this whole volume, and the strength of the miracle, or set the miraculous deliverance in the strongest light, with this view,

to confirm this second letter of Purim;
that it might have its weight and influence upon them, to engage them to keep it, as the latter Targum adds; that when it was an intercalary year, they might not read the Megillah (or book of Esther) in the first Adar, but in the second Adar.

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FOOTNOTES:

F24 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 29. p. 87.

Yǐsītièjì 9:29 In-Context

27 Jiù yīng chéng zìjǐ yǔ hòuyì , bìng guī fù tāmende rén , mĕi nián ànshí bì shǒu zhè liǎng rì , yǒngyuǎn bù feì .

28 Gè shĕng gè chéng , jiā jiā hù hù , shì shìdaì daì jìniàn zūnshǒu zhè liǎng rì , shǐ zhè pǔ ĕr rì zaì Yóudà rén zhōng bùkĕ feìdiào , zaì tāmen hòuyì zhōng yĕ bùkĕ wàngjì .

29 Yà bǐ hái de nǚér wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ , hé Yóudà rén Mòdǐgǎi yǐ quánquán xiĕ dì èr fēng xìn , jiān zhǔ Yóudà rén shǒu zhè pǔ ĕr rì .

30 Yòng hépíng chéngshí huà , xiĕ xìn gĕi Yàhāsuílǔ wáng guó zhōng , yī bǎi èr shí qī shĕng suǒyǒude Yóudà rén ,

31 Quàn tāmen ànshí shǒu zhè pǔ ĕr rì , jìnshí hū qiú , shì zhào Yóudà rén Mòdǐgǎi , hé wáng hòu Yǐsītiĕ , suǒ zhǔfu de . yĕ zhào Yóudà rén wèi zìjǐ yǔ hòuyì suǒ yīng chéng de .