Cross references

Esther 9:19

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.

Esther 9:19 BSB

Esther 9:19 has 10 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Esther 8:17 (5 votes) and Deuteronomy 16:14 (4 votes). 9 other verses point back to it. It links with 10 other books, from Deuteronomy 3 to Revelation 11.

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Which verses does Esther 9:19 point to?

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  1. 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.

  2. And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

  3. Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing prepared, since today is holy to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.” And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.” …

  4. 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.

  5. And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophets had tormented them.

  6. and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in the place He will choose as a dwelling for His Name—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.

  7. All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.

  8. They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off. They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off. …

  9. and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

  10. Luke 11:412 votes

    But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.

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