Esther 3:6-9

Haman Plots Against the Jews

6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai alone. So, as they had made known to him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus.

7 In the first month, which is the month of Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, x 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 y the month of Adar. 8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. z Their laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king's laws, so that it is not to the king's profit to tolerate them. 9 If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents 1 of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries."

  1. Cross References
    Esther 9:24
    For Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur (that is, cast lots), to crush and to destroy them.
    Esther 9:26
    Therefore they called these days Purim, after the term Pur. Therefore, because of all that was written in this letter, and of what they had faced in this matter, and of what had happened to them.
  2. 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.
  3. Cross References
    Ezra 4:12 - 13
    Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you to us have gone to Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are finishing the walls and repairing the foundations.
    Acts 16:20 - 21
    And when they had brought them to the magistrates, they said, "These men are Jews, and they are disturbing our city.
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