Esther 9:20

Staten Vertaling

En Mordechai beschreef deze geschiedenissen; en hij zond brieven aan al de Joden, die in al de landschappen van den koning Ahasveros waren, dien, die nabij, en dien, die verre waren,

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling
En Mordechai beschreef deze gebeurtenissen, en zond de brieven aan alle Joden, die in alle gewesten van koning Ahasveros waren, zowel aan degenen, die nabij als die ver waren,

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
En Mordochai schreef deze dingen op en zond brieven aan alle Joden in alle provincien van koning Ahasweros, aan hen die dichtbij en aan hen die veraf woonden

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Mordecai: That is, as the words imply, the history contained in this book; and not merely the letters afterwards mentioned, as some understand it.

wrote these: Exodus 17:14, Deuteronomy 31:19-22, 1 Chronicles 16:12, Psalms 124:1-3, Psalms 145:4-12, 2 Corinthians 1:10, 2 Corinthians 1:11

in all the provinces: Esther 1:1, Esther 1:22, Esther 3:12, Esther 8:9

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 30:5 - established Esther 9:26 - letter Esther 9:29 - confirm Jeremiah 29:1 - of the letter

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Mordecai wrote these things,.... The transactions of those two days, and the causes of them, as well as the following letter; some conclude from hence that he was the penman of the book; and so he might be, but it does not necessarily follow from hence:

and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the King Ahasuerus, both nigh and far; such as were near the city Shushan, and those that were at the greatest distance from it; these were more especially the things he wrote.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 9:20. Mordecai wrote these things — It has been supposed that thus far that part of the book of Esther, which was written by Mordecai extends: what follows to the end, was probably added either by Ezra, or the men of the Great Synagogue; though what is said here may refer only to the letters sent by Mordecai to the Jews of the provinces. From this to the end of the chapter is nothing else than a recapitulation of the chief heads of the preceding history, and an account of the appointment of an annual feast, called the feast of Purim, in commemoration of their providential deliverance from the malice of Haman.