Esther 9:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

On the fifteenth day... they rested. — Both the fourteenth and fifteenth days are now kept as the festival of Purim, the former day being the chief.

Esther 9:18

18 But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and on the fifteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.