While ¹  you are still there speaking to the king, I will arrive ²  and verify your report.” ³ 

Confirm to your servant your promise, ¹  which you made to the one who honors you. ² 

For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised ¹  on behalf of God’s truth to confirm the promises made to the fathers, ² 

O God, you cause abundant showers to fall ¹  on your chosen people. ²  When they ³  are tired, you sustain them, ⁴ 

And in the first year of Darius the Mede, I ¹  stood to strengthen him and to provide protection for him.)

“Any vow or sworn obligation that would bring affliction to her, ¹  her husband can confirm or nullify. ² 

So Queen Esther, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew wrote with full authority to confirm this second ¹  letter about Purim.

May our sovereign God extend his favor to us! ¹  Make our endeavors successful! Yes, make them successful! ² 

You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, ¹  even as he has to this day.

So now, O Lord God, make this promise you have made about your servant and his family a permanent reality. ¹  Do as you promised, ² 

I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain ¹  my covenant with you.

‘Cursed is the one who refuses to keep the words of this law.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

He ¹  will also strengthen you to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pul ¹  king of Assyria invaded the land, and Menahem paid ²  him ³  a thousand talents ⁴  of silver to gain his support ⁵  and to solidify his control of the kingdom. ⁶ 

Then I will confirm my covenant ¹  between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants.” ² 

Therefore we are sending ¹  Judas and Silas ²  who will tell you these things themselves in person. ³ 

(Now this used to be the customary way to finalize a transaction involving redemption in Israel: ¹  A man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party. ²  This was a legally binding act ³  in Israel.)

Today he will affirm that you are his people and that he is your God, ¹  just as he promised you and as he swore by oath to your ancestors ²  Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

to establish these days of Purim in their proper times, just as Mordecai the Jew and Queen Esther had established, and just as they had established both for themselves and their descendants, matters pertaining to fasting and lamentation.

And, after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace who called you to his eternal glory in Christ ¹  will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. ²