CAB(i)
24 showing how Haman the son of Hammedatha the Macedonian fought against them, how he made a decree and cast lots to utterly destroy them;
25 also how he went in to the king, telling him to hang Mordecai. But all the calamities he tried to bring upon the Jews came upon himself, and he was hanged, and his children.
26 Therefore these days were called Purim, because of the name Pur; (for in their language they are called Phrurae;) because of the words of this letter, and because of all they suffered on this account, and all that happened to them.