Esth.3.7

Esther 3:7

KJV

¶ 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.

Haman’s Plot against the Jews

Cross References

Ezra 4:6

KJV

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

Opposition under Xerxes and Artaxerxes

Adversaries Hinder the Work

Ezra 6:15

KJV

And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

The Temple Completed

The Temple Completed and Dedicated

Esther 9:24

KJV

Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;