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
And it cometh to pass, in the month of Nisan, the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, wine is before him, and I lift up the wine, and give to the king, and I had not been sad before him;
They cast pur
Esther 9:24
because Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, adversary of all the Jews, had devised concerning the Jews to destroy them, and had caused to fall Pur -- that is the lot -- to crush them and to destroy them;
Proverbs 16:33
Into the centre is the lot cast, And from Jehovah is all its judgment!
Ezekiel 21:21
For stood hath the king of Babylon at the head of the way, At the top of the two ways, to use divination, He hath moved lightly with the arrows, He hath asked at the teraphim, He hath looked on the liver.
Matthew 27:35
And having crucified him, they divided his garments, casting a lot, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken by the prophet, 'They divided my garments to themselves, and over my vesture they cast a lot;'
Adar
Esther 9:1
And in the twelfth month -- it is the month of Adar -- on the thirteenth day of it, in which the word of the king, even his law, hath come to be done, in the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to rule over them, and it is turned that the Jews rule over those hating them --
Ezra 6:15
And this house hath gone out till the third day of the month Adar, that is in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
General references
Psalm 83:4
They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'
Proverbs 24:2
For destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.