Esther 3:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasu-erus, they cast Pur, that is the lot, 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 4:6

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

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.

Nehemiah 2:1

In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Ar-ta-xerxes, 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.

Esther 1:3

in the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his princes and servants, the army chiefs of Persia and Media and the nobles and governors of the provinces being before him,

Esther 2:16

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

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 executed, on the very day when the enemies of the Jews hoped to get the mastery over them, but which had been changed to a day when the Jews should get the mastery over their foes,

Esther 9:21

enjoining them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar and also the fifteenth day of the same, year by year,

Esther 9:5

So the Jews smote all their enemies with the sword, slaughtering, and destroying them, and did as they pleased to those who hated them.

Proverbs 16:33

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

Matthew 27:35

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