Ester 9:29

Schlachter Bibel

Und die Königin Esther, die Tochter Abichails, und Mardochai, der Jude, schrieben mit allem Nachdruck, um diesen zweiten Brief betreffend die Purim zu bestätigen.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Und die Königin Esther, die Tochter Abihails, und Mardochai, der Jude, schrieben mit ganzem Ernst, um es zu bestätigen, diesen zweiten Brief von Purim;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the daughter of Abihail: Esther 3:15

authority: Heb. strength

confirm: Esther 9:20, Esther 8:10

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority,.... Strongly pressing the observance of this festival; before, Mordecai only recommended it, but now the queen gave a sanction to it, and laid her obligation on the Jews to observe it; perhaps some of the Jews were backward to it, or neglected to observe it, and therefore Esther and Mordecai joined in a letter to them, to press them to it; the Jewish chronologer x says, this was written the year following; the former Targum is, they wrote this whole volume, and the strength of the miracle, or set the miraculous deliverance in the strongest light, with this view,

to confirm this second letter of Purim; that it might have its weight and influence upon them, to engage them to keep it, as the latter Targum adds; that when it was an intercalary year, they might not read the Megillah (or book of Esther) in the first Adar, but in the second Adar.

x Seder Olam Rabba, c. 29. p. 87.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This second letter of Purim - Mordecai’s first letter Esther 9:20 was to some extent tentative, a recommendation. The Jews generally having accepted the recommendation Esther 9:23, Esther 9:27, he and Esther now wrote a second letter which was mandatory.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 9:29. Esther - wrote with all authority — Esther and Mordecai had the king's license so to do: and their own authority was great and extensive.