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Esther 9:27
the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The narrative records the Jewish community formally committing to a new annual observance following their deliverance in Esther 9. This declaration establishes the institutional foundation for Purim in direct response to the preceding historical events.
The words — The text employs קִיְּמ֣וּ (ki.ye.mu), meaning they imposed or established, and וְ/קִבְּל֣וּ (ve./ki.bel), meaning and they accepted. These paired verbs frame the decree as both a binding obligation and a voluntary reception.
The thread — The inclusion of those joining the community parallels the foreigner's commitment in Isaiah 56:6 and the nations joining the LORD in Zechariah 2:11. The mandated annual celebration mirrors the widespread joy recorded in Esther 8:17.
Why it lands — The verse requires the Jewish people, their offspring, and all who join them to maintain an unbroken annual observance. It demands that this celebration be fixed at the appointed time according to their regulation, ensuring the memory does not fade.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
Cross-references
- Isaiah 56:6 And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
- Zechariah 2:11 “On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you.
- Esther 8:17 In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.
- Isaiah 56:3 Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
- Deuteronomy 5:3 He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
- Deuteronomy 29:14 I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
- Joshua 9:15 And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
- 1 Samuel 30:25 And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute and ordinance for Israel to this very day.
- 2 Samuel 21:1 During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
- Esther 9:21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar