Esther 9:22 meaning and explanation
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one another and to the poor.
Esther 9:22, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
Mordecai is writing to Jews across Xerxes' empire, fixing an annual festival on the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar. The verse explains why those days were chosen: they were the days the Jews gained rest from enemies who had plotted their destruction, and the month in which sorrow turned to joy and mourning into a holiday.
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