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
It happened in the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when wine was before him, I carried the wine and gave it to the king. And I had never been sad before the king.
They cast pur
Esther 9:24
For Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and he had cast pur, that [is] the lot, to rout them out and destroy them.
Proverbs 16:33
The lot will be cast into the lap, but all of its decisions are from Yahweh.
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stands at the fork of the road at the head of the two roads to practice divination. {He shakes the arrows}, he inquires with the teraphim, he {examines} the liver.
Matthew 27:35
And [when they] had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves [by] casting lots.
Adar
Esther 9:1
In the twelfth month, that [is] the month of Adar, on the thirteenth day, on which the edict of the king arrived and his law was enacted, on the day in which the enemies of the Jews had hoped to gain power over them but was overturned, [and] the Jews gained power against their enemies,
Ezra 6:15
This house was completed on the third day of the month of Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.
General references
Psalm 83:4
They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."
Proverbs 24:2
For their minds will devise violence, and their lips will speak mischief.