Esther 8:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

A feast and a good day, i.e. a time of feasting and rejoicing, and thanksgiving, The fear of the Jews; when possibly they had irritated by their former threatenings, and now gave this evidence of their repentance, that they were willing to submit to that severe precept of circumcision.

Esther 8:17

17 And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.