Esther 3:7 Cross References - CAB

⁷ And he made a decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to slay in one day the race of Mordecai. And the lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month, which is Adar.

¹⁵ And they finished this house by the third day of the month of Adar, which is the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

¹ And it came to pass in the month of Nisan of the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, that the wine was before me. And I took the wine, and gave it to the king; and there was not another before him.

³ in the third year of his reign, he made a feast for his friends, and the other nations, and to the nobles of the Persians and Medes, and the chief of the satraps.

¹⁶ So Esther went in to King Artaxerxes in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.

¹ Now in the twelfth month, on the thirteenth day of the month which is Adar, the letters written by the king arrived.

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¹⁷ And they rested on the fourteenth of the same month, and kept it as a day of rest with joy and gladness. ¹⁸ And the Jews in the city Susa assembled also on the fourteenth day and rested; and they kept also the fifteenth with joy and gladness. ¹⁹ Because of this the Jews dispersed in every foreign land to keep the fourteenth of Adar as a holy day with joy, sending portions each to his neighbor.

²¹ to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;

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.

³³ All evils come upon the ungodly into their bosoms, but all good things come from the Lord.

²¹ For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old road, at the head of the two roads, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to inquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims. {\i ²² On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.

³⁵ And having crucified Him, they divided His clothes among themselves, casting lots.