Esther 3:7

English Standard Version 2016

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur (that is, they cast lots) before Haman day after day; and they cast it month after month till the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

Cross References

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.

Proverbs 16:33

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

Matthew 27:35

And when they had crucified him, they divided his garments among them by casting lots.

Esther 9:21

obliging them to keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

Esther 9:5

The Jews struck all their enemies with the sword, killing and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

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.

Esther 2:16

And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign,

Esther 1:3

in the third year of his reign he gave a feast for all his officials and servants. The army of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces were before him,

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.

Ezra 4:6

And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.