Ezra 6:15
15and this house was finished on the third day of the amonth of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.Esther 9:1
The Jews Destroy Their Enemies
1 bNow in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, con the thirteenth day of the same, dwhen the king’s command and edict were about to be carried out, eon the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, the reverse occurred: the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.Esther 9:5
5The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.Esther 9:17-19
17This was fon the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested and made that a day of feasting and gladness. 18But the Jews who were in Susa gathered gon the thirteenth day and on the fourteenth, and rested hon the fifteenth day, making that a day of feasting and gladness. 19Therefore the Jews of the villages, who live in ithe rural towns, hold the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a day for gladness and feasting, as ja holiday, and kas a day on which they send gifts of food to one another.Esther 9:21
21obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,
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