Additions to Esther 9:23

23 So the Jews accepted all that Mordecai had written.

Additions to Esther 9:23 In-Context

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,

25 and how he had gone to the king to request that Mordecai be hanged. But Haman suffered the same fate he had planned for the Jews - he and his sons were hanged from the gallows.