the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation.
“On that day many nations will join themselves to the LORD, and they will become My people. I will dwell among you, and
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His serva
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jew
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the
And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
I am making this covenant and this oath not only with you,
to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe
During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the
He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.
And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute and ordinance for Israel to this very day.