에9:1 부림절을 지킴
에9:1 유다 대적들의 멸망
더 9:1 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,
the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the
enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were
turned and the Jews got t he upper hand over those who hated them.
더 9:2 The Jews assembled in their cities in all the provinces of King
Xerxes to attack those seeking their destruction . No one could stand against
them, because the people of all the other nationalities were afraid of
them.
더 9:3 And all the nobles of the provinces, the satraps, the governors
and the king's administrators helped the Jews, b ecause fear of Mordecai
had seized them.
더 9:4 Mordecai was prominent in the palace; his reputation spread
throughout the provinces, and he became more and mor e powerful.
더 9:5 The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing
and destroying them, and they did what they pleas ed to those who hated
them.
더 9:6 In the citadel of Susa, the Jews killed and destroyed five hundred
men.
더 9:7 They also killed Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,
더 9:8 Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha,
더 9:9 Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha,
더 9:10 he ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews.
But they did not lay their hands on the plunder.
더 9:11 The number of those slain in the citadel of Susa was reported
to the king that same day.
더 9:12 The king said to Queen Esther, "The Jews have killed and destroyed
five hundred men and the ten sons of Ha man in the citadel of Susa. What
have they done in the rest of the king's provinces? Now what is your petition?
It will be given you. What is your request? It will also be granted."
더 9:13 "If it pleases the king," Esther answered, "give the Jews in
Susa permission to carry out this d ay's edict tomorrow also, and let Haman's
ten sons be hanged on gallows."
더 9:14 So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued
in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
더 9:15 The Jews in Susa came together on the fourteenth day of the
month of Adar, and they put to death in Susa three hundred men, but they
did not lay their hands on the plunder.
더 9:16 Meanwhile, the remainder of the Jews who were in the king's
provinces also assembled to protect themselves and get relief from their
enemies. They killed seventy-five thousand of them but did not lay their
hands on the plunder.
에9:17 부림절의 제정
더 9:17 This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and
on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day o f feasting and joy.
더 9:18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth
and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they reste d and made it a day
of feasting and joy.
더 9:19 That is why rural Jews--those living in villages--observe the
fourteenth of the month of Adar as a day of joy a nd feasting, a day for
giving presents to each other.
더 9:20 Mordecai recorded these events, and he sent letters to all
the Jews throughout the provinces of King Xerxes, ne ar and far,
더 9:21 to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth
days of the month of Adar
더 9:22 as the time when the Jews got relief from their enemies, and
as the month when their sorrow was turned into joy and their mourning into
a day of celebration. He wrote them to observe the days as days of feasting
and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.
더 9:23 So the Jews agreed to continue the celebration they had begun,
doing what Mordecai had written to them.
더 9:24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all
the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy th em and had cast the
pur (that is, the lot) for their ruin and destruction.
더 9:25 But when the plot came to the king's attention, he issued written
orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come
back onto his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the
gallows.
더 9:26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur
.) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they
had seen and what had happened to them,
더 9:27 the Jews took it upon themselves to establish the custom that
they and their descendants and all who join them should without fail observe
these two days every year, in the way prescribed and at the time appointed.
더 9:28 These days should be remembered and observed in every generation
by every family, and in every province and in every city. And these days
of Purim should never cease to be celebrated by the Jews, nor should the
memory of them die o ut among their descendants.
더 9:29 So Queen Esther, daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the
Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this se cond letter concerning
Purim.
더 9:30 And Mordecai sent letters to all the Jews in the 127 provinces
of the kingdom of Xerxes--words of goodwill and assurance--
더 9:31 to establish these days of Purim at their designated times,
as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had decreed fo r them, and as they
had established for themselves and their descendants in regard to their
times of fasting and lamenta tion.
더 9:32 Esther's decree confirmed these regulations about Purim, and
it was written down in the records. |