Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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
They cast pur
Adar
General references
Bible References
The first month
Nehemiah 2:1
In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I took up the wine and gave it to the king. Now I had not been sad in his presence.
They cast pur
Esther 9:24
For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.
Proverbs 16:33
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.
Ezekiel 21:21
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 teraphim; he looks at the liver.
Matthew 27:35
And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.
Adar
Esther 9:1
Now in the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's command and edict were about to be carried out, on 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.
Ezra 6:15
and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
General references
Psalm 83:4
They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"
Proverbs 24:2
for their hearts devise violence, and their lips talk of trouble.