# Esther 9

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/esther/9

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. In the twelfth month, Adar, on its thirteenth day—when the king's word and his decree arrived for execution, the very day the enemies of the Jews hoped to rule over them—it turned out the opposite, with the Jews themselves ruling their haters.
2. The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to lay hands on those seeking their harm, and no one stood before them because the dread of them had fallen upon all peoples.
3. All the provincial rulers, the satraps, the governors, and those handling the king's affairs supported the Jews, because dread of Mordecai had fallen on them.
4. For Mordecai was great in the king's court, and his fame spread through all the provinces; for the man Mordecai became increasingly great.
5. The Jews struck all their enemies with blows of the sword, slaughter, and destruction, and did to those who hated them whatever they desired.
6. In Susa’s palace the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men.
7. Parshandatha, Dalphon, and Aspatha
8. Poratha, Adalia, and Aridatha,
9. and Parmasta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha
10. They killed the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, but did not lay their hands on the plunder.
11. On that day the number of those slain in Shushan the palace came before the king.
12. The king said to Queen Esther, "In Susa citadel the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred men along with the ten sons of Haman; what have they accomplished in the rest of the king's provinces? What is your petition? It shall be given you. What is your further request? It shall be done."
13. Esther said, "If it seems good to the king, let permission also be given tomorrow to the Jews in Susa to act according to this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged on the gallows."
14. The king commanded it to be done thus, a decree was given in Susa, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
15. The Jews in Susa assembled on the fourteenth day of the month Adar as well and killed three hundred men in Susa, but they laid no hand on the plunder.
16. The rest of the Jews in the king's provinces gathered together, stood for their lives, rested from their enemies, and killed seventy-five thousand of those who hated them, but they laid no hand on the plunder.
17. On the thirteenth day in the month Adar, on its fourteenth day they rested and made it a day of banqueting and rejoicing.
18. The Jews who were in Susa assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, rested on the fifteenth, and made it a day of feasting and joy.
19. Therefore the Jews of the villages, dwelling in the cities of the unwalled towns, make the fourteenth day of the month Adar gladness and feasting, a good day, and sending portions one to his fellow.
20. Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in every province of King Ahasuerus, both nearby and distant.
21. to establish among them observance of the fourteenth day of the month Adar and the fifteenth day in it every year.
22. as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month turned for them from grief to gladness and from mourning to a good day, to celebrate them as days of feasting and joy, sending portions each man to his neighbor and gifts to the needy.
23. The Jews accepted what they had begun to do and what Mordecai had written to them.
24. Because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, enemy of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur—that is, the lot—to crush them and to destroy them.
25. When she came before the king, he ordered by the letter that his evil scheme, which he had plotted against the Jews, return upon his own head, and that he and his sons be hanged on the gallows.
26. Therefore they named these days Purim from the name of Pur, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen about this matter, and what had reached them.
27. The Jews established and committed themselves, along with their descendants and all who had joined them, so it would not lapse—to observe these two days according to their record and appointed time every year.
28. And these days shall be remembered and observed in every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and these days of Purim shall not pass from among the Jews, nor shall their remembrance perish from their offspring.
29. Esther the queen, Abihail's daughter, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second Purim letter.
30. He sent letters to all the Jews throughout the hundred twenty-seven provinces of Ahasuerus' kingdom, containing words of peace and truth.
31. To establish these days of Purim in their set times, as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had imposed on them, and as they had imposed on themselves and their descendants the requirements of the fasts and their outcry.
32. Esther's decree established these Purim matters, and it was recorded in the book.

## Nearby chapters

[Esther 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/esther/8.md)
[Esther 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/esther/10.md)

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