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.
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jew
as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their
And those who dwell on the earth will gloat over them and celebrate and send one another gifts, because these two prophe
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as
Then Nehemiah told them, “Go and eat what is rich, drink what is sweet, and send out portions to those who have nothing
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
All these cities were fortified with high walls and gates and bars, and there were many more unwalled villages.
But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you.
and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men a
They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the LORD I cut them off.