Ester 4:17

17 Mardocheo se ne andò, e fece tutto quello che Ester gli aveva ordinato.

Ester 4:17 Meaning and Commentary

Esther 4:17

So Mordecai went his way
About the business he was directed to; the word used having sometimes the signification of passing over or transgressing, Jarchi interprets it of Mordecai's transgressing the command, by fasting on a festival; the letter being written on the thirteenth of Nisan, ( Esther 3:12 ) , the next day was the passover, on which he supposes the fast began; and the three days were, the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth of the month, and belonged to the feast of the passover and of unleavened bread; so the Targum:

and did according to all that Esther had commanded him;
got the Jews together, and kept a fast three days; according to the Midrash F5 they were the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth of Nisan.


FOOTNOTES:

F5 Midrash Esther, fol. 94. 4.

Ester 4:17 In-Context

15 Allora Ester ordinò che si rispondesse a Mardocheo:
16 "Va’, raduna tutti i Giudei che si trovano a Susa, e digiunate per me; state senza mangiare e senza bere per tre giorni, notte e giorno. Anch’io con le mie donzelle digiunerò nello stesso modo; e dopo entrerò dal re, quantunque ciò sia contro la legge; e, s’io debbo perire, ch’io perisca!"
17 Mardocheo se ne andò, e fece tutto quello che Ester gli aveva ordinato.
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