Est 8:17, Isa 56:3, 6, Zec 2:11, 8:23 | ESV | STEP | And in every province and in every city , wherever the king’s command and his edict reached , there was gladness and joy among the Jews , a feast and a holiday . And many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews , for fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

f[See ver. 3 above]

g[See ver. 2 above]

h ch. 8:22; See Isa. 2:2

i[See ver. 10 above]

j[See ver. 9 above]

kSee Gen. 31:7

l[Isa. 66:18; Rev. 5:9]

m[1 Cor. 14:25]

Esther 8:17

17 And in every province and in every city, wherever the king’s command and his edict reached, there was gladness and joy among the Jews, a feast and ^aa holiday. ^bAnd many from the peoples of the country declared themselves Jews, ^cfor fear of the Jews had fallen on them.

Isaiah 56:3

3 Let not ^dthe foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am ^ea dry tree.”

Isaiah 56:6

6 “And ^fthe foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone ^gwho keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—

Zechariah 2:11

11 ^hAnd many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. ⁱAnd I will dwell in your midst, and ^jyou shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.

Zechariah 8:23

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ^kten men ^lfrom the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for ^mwe have heard that God is with you.’”