Fondare 401 Risultati per: exiled Jews
For Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, enemy of the Jews, had plotted to destroy them and had cast the pur or lot for their ruin. (Esther 9, 24)
Yet through Esther's intervention, the king ordered in writing that the wicked plan against the Jews should instead be turned against Haman, whom he ordered to be hanged as well as his sons. (Esther 9, 25)
the Jews took upon themselves, their descendants and all who would join them, to celebrate these two days every year without fail, in the manner prescribed and at the time appointed. (Esther 9, 27)
Commemorated and celebrated thus, in every family, province and city, through all generations, these days of Purim were never to fall into disuse among the Jews nor into oblivion among their descendants. (Esther 9, 28)
Letters were sent to all the Jews in the one hundred twenty-seven provinces of Ahasuerus' kingdom, in words conveying goodwill and assurance, (Esther 9, 30)
enjoining them to observe these days of Purim at the designated time, as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed and just as the Jews had prescribed for themselves and their descendants, with respect to their duty of fasting and lamentation. (Esther 9, 31)
The Jew Mordecai was second in rank to King Ahasuerus; he was great among the Jews and esteemed by many of his brothers as the harbinger of peace and welfare for all his people. (Esther 10, 3)
Those who assembled to destroy the Jews are the nations. (Esther 10, 8)
'We find, however, that the Jews consigned to extinction by this accursed man are not evildoers but are governed by the most just of laws. (Esther 16, 15)
Post a copy of this letter in every public place, give the Jews freedom to live by their own laws, (Esther 16, 19)
In the meantime, the king's representatives, who were forcing the Jews to give up their religion came to Modein to organize a sacred gathering. (1 Maccabees 2, 15)
Many Jews who looked for justice and wanted to be faithful to the Law went into the desert; (1 Maccabees 2, 29)
