Esther 3:7
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7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the pur(A) (that is, the lot(B)) was cast in the presence of Haman to select a day and month. And the lot fell on[a] the twelfth month, the month of Adar.(C)
Footnotes
- Esther 3:7 Septuagint; Hebrew does not have And the lot fell on.
Ezra 6:15
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15 The temple was completed on the third day of the month Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of King Darius.(A)
Esther 9:24-26
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24 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite,(A) the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the pur(B) (that is, the lot(C)) for their ruin and destruction.(D) 25 But when the plot came to the king’s attention,[a] he issued written orders that the evil scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should come back onto his own head,(E) and that he and his sons should be impaled(F) on poles.(G) 26 (Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur.(H)) Because of everything written in this letter and because of what they had seen and what had happened to them,
Footnotes
- Esther 9:25 Or when Esther came before the king
Ezekiel 21:21-22
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21 For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots(A) with arrows, he will consult his idols,(B) he will examine the liver.(C) 22 Into his right hand will come the lot for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to give the command to slaughter, to sound the battle cry,(D) to set battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp(E) and to erect siege works.(F)
Proverbs 16:33
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Matthew 27:35
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35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots.(A)
Esther 9:21
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21 to have them celebrate annually the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
Esther 9:17-19
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17 This happened on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting(A) and joy.
18 The Jews in Susa, however, had assembled on the thirteenth and fourteenth, and then on the fifteenth they rested and made it a day of feasting and joy.
19 That is why rural Jews—those living in villages—observe the fourteenth of the month of Adar(B) as a day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.(C)
Esther 9:5
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5 The Jews struck down all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them,(A) and they did what they pleased to those who hated them.
Esther 9:1
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9 On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar,(A) the edict commanded by the king was to be carried out. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but now the tables were turned and the Jews got the upper hand(B) over those who hated them.(C)
Esther 2:16
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16 She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther 1:3
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3 and in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet(A) for all his nobles and officials. The military leaders of Persia and Media, the princes, and the nobles of the provinces were present.
Nehemiah 2:1
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Artaxerxes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem
2 In the month of Nisan in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes,(A) when wine was brought for him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before,
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