Cross references
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.
Esther 8:17 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 6 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Deuteronomy 11:25 (6 votes) and Esther 9:19 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 35 to Revelation 3.
Which verses does Esther 8:17 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Deuteronomy 11:256 votes
No man will be able to stand against you; the LORD your God will put the fear and dread of you upon all the land, wherever you set foot, as He has promised you.
- Esther 9:195 votes
This is why the rural Jews, who live in the villages, observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day of joy and feasting. It is a holiday for sending gifts to one another.
- 1 Samuel 25:84 votes
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can spare to your servants and to your son David.’”
- Esther 9:24 votes
In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
- Psalm 18:434 votes
You have delivered me from the strife of the people; You have made me the head of nations; a people I had not known shall serve me.
- Zechariah 8:20–234 votes
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities— and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’ …
- Genesis 35:53 votes
As they set out, a terror from God fell over the surrounding cities, so that they did not pursue Jacob’s sons.
- Exodus 15:163 votes
and terror and dread will fall on them. By the power of Your arm they will be as still as a stone until Your people pass by, O LORD, until the people You have bought pass by.
- Deuteronomy 2:253 votes
This very day I will begin to put the dread and fear of you upon all the nations under heaven. They will hear the reports of you and tremble in anguish because of you.”
- Esther 9:223 votes
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 9:273 votes
- Nehemiah 8:102 votes
- Esther 9:172 votes
This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
Which verses point to Esther 8:17?
The 10 strongest of 21.