Talált 522 Eredmények: Jew
who in turn told Esther: "The Jews have killed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman in Susa alone. Imagine what more they have done in the rest of my provinces! But you shall again be granted whatever you ask; whatever you request shall be fulfilled." (Esther 9, 12)
Esther replied, "If it pleases the king, let the Jews in Susa be permitted again tomorrow to carry out today's edict, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows." (Esther 9, 13)
On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa gathered again and put to death three hundred men. But again they laid no hand on the spoils. (Esther 9, 15)
The other Jews in the king's provinces also assembled to protect themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of their foes, but did not lay hands on the spoils. (Esther 9, 16)
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and the Jews rested on the fourteenth, making it a day of feasting and rejoicing. (Esther 9, 17)
The Jews in Susa, however, assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth and rested on the fifteenth, making this a day of feasting and rejoicing. (Esther 9, 18)
That is why the rural Jews have a different day of rest and celebration: the fourteenth of the month of Adar on which they send presents to each other. (Esther 9, 19)
Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far, (Esther 9, 20)
as the days when the Jews rid themselves of their enemies, and as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into feasting. They were to observe these as days of festivity and rejoicing, days for giving food presents to one another and gifts to the poor. (Esther 9, 22)
The Jews agreed to observe annually this celebration instituted on Mordecai's written order. (Esther 9, 23)
For Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, enemy of the Jews, had plotted to destroy them and had cast the pur or lot for their ruin. (Esther 9, 24)
Yet through Esther's intervention, the king ordered in writing that the wicked plan against the Jews should instead be turned against Haman, whom he ordered to be hanged as well as his sons. (Esther 9, 25)