Esther 3:7

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Summary

In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.

The first month

Nehemiah 2:1

They cast pur

Adar

Esther 9:1

Ezra 6:15

General references

Psalm 83:4

Proverbs 24:2

Bible References

The first month

And it came about in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that wine was before him, and I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.

They cast pur

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had schemed against the Jews to destroy them and had cast Pur, that is the lot, to disturb them and destroy them.

The lot is cast into the lap,
But its every decision is from the Lord.

For the king of Babylon stands at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination; he shakes the arrows, he consults the

household idols, he looks at the liver.

And when they had crucified Him, they divided up His garments among themselves by casting lots.

Adar

Now in the twelfth month (that is, the month Adar), on the thirteenth day when the king’s command and edict were about to be executed, on the day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to gain the mastery over them, it was turned to the contrary so that the Jews themselves gained the mastery over those who hated them.

This temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar; it was the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.

General references

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation,
That the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

For their minds devise violence,
And their lips talk of trouble.