John Gill's Exposition on Esther 9:31

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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To confirm these days of Purim in their times appointed, etc.] The fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar: according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them; in the letters written and signed by them both: and as they had decreed for themselves, and for their seed; (see <170927>Esther 9:27), the matters of their fastings and their cry; in commemoration of their deliverance from those distresses and calamities which occasioned fastings and prayers during the time of them; and to this sense is the former Targum; though it is certain the Jews observe the thirteenth day, the day before the two days, as a fast, and which they call the fast of Esther f186, and have prayers on the festival days peculiar to them; but the sense Aben Ezra gives seems best, that as the Jews had decreed to keep the fasts, mentioned in (<380705>Zechariah 7:5), so they now decreed to rejoice in the days of Purim.

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