Esther 9:27 Cross References
Esther 9:27
27: the Jews throughout the realm agreed to inaugurate this tradition and to pass it on to their descendants and to all who became Jews. They declared they would never fail to celebrate these two prescribed days at the appointed time each year.
Isaiah 56:6
- "I will also bless the Gentiles who commit themselves to the LORD and serve him and love his name, who worship him and do not desecrate the Sabbath day of rest, and who have accepted his covenant.
Zechariah 2:11
- Many nations will join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they, too, will be my people. I will live among you, and you will know that the LORD Almighty sent me to you.
Esther 8:17
- In every city and province, wherever the king's decree arrived, the Jews rejoiced and had a great celebration and declared a public festival and holiday. And many of the people of the land became Jews themselves, for they feared what the Jews might do to them.
Isaiah 56:3
- "And my blessings are for Gentiles, too, when they commit themselves to the LORD. Do not let them think that I consider them second-class citizens. And my blessings are also for the eunuchs. They are as much mine as anyone else.
Esther 9:21
- encouraging them to celebrate an annual festival on these two days.
Zechariah 8:23
- "This is what the LORD Almighty says: In those days ten people from nations and languages around the world will clutch at the hem of one Jew's robe. And they will say, `Please let us walk with you, for we have heard that God is with you.'"
Deuteronomy 29:14
- But you are not the only ones with whom the LORD is making this covenant with its obligations.
- The LORD your God is making this covenant with you who stand in his presence today and also with all future generations of Israel.
Deuteronomy 5:3
- The LORD did not make this covenant long ago with our ancestors, but with all of us who are alive today.
1 Samuel 30:25
- From then on David made this a law for all of Israel, and it is still followed.
Joshua 9:15
- Then Joshua went ahead and signed a peace treaty with them, and the leaders of Israel ratified their agreement with a binding oath.
2 Samuel 21:1
- There was a famine during David's reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the LORD about it. And the LORD said, "The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites."
- So King David summoned the Gibeonites. They were not part of Israel but were all that was left of the nation of the Amorites. Israel had sworn not to kill them, but Saul, in his zeal, had tried to wipe them out.