Cross references

Esther 9:22

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 9:22 BSB

Esther 9:22 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 30:11 (7 votes) and Esther 9:19 (4 votes). 13 other verses point back to it. It links with 16 other books, from Exodus 13 to Revelation 11.

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Which verses does Esther 9:22 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

  2. 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.

  3. In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. For the LORD GOD is my strength and my song, and He also has become my salvation.”

  4. On the day that the LORD gives you rest from your pain and torment, and from the hard labor into which you were forced,

  5. On the thirteenth day of the first month, the royal scribes were summoned and the order was written exactly as Haman commanded the royal satraps, the governors of each province, and the officials of each people, in the script of each province and the language of every people. It was written in the name of King Xerxes and sealed with the royal signet ring. And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

  6. They only asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.

  7. So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten. Today, in the month of Abib, you are leaving. …

  8. 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.” …

  9. Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—

  10. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.

  11. Luke 11:410 votes

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

Which verses point to Esther 9:22?

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