Esther 9:24-26
the enemy.10; 3:5-13Pur.The word {pur} seems to be derived either from the Persian {bahr} and {bar,} a part, portion, lot, or {pari,} any thing which happens fortuitously or fortunately; whence the annual festival in commemoration of the wonderful deliverance of the Jews from their enemies was called Purim, or in Arabic and Persian, {Fuhr,} or {Lots;} which has been observed by them, in all places of their dispersion, from that day to the present time, without any interruption. 3:7consume. Heb. crush. when Esther came. Heb. when she came.13,14; 7:5-10; 8:1-14return.Ps 7:16; 109:17,18; 140:9; 141:10; Mt 21:44 they called.Nu 16:40; Eze 39:11Pur. that is, Lot. letter.20 Proverbs 16:33
Nu 26:55-65; Jos 7:14; 18:5,10; 1Sa 14:41,42; Ne 11:1; Jon 1:7Ac 1:26 Ezekiel 21:21-22
the king.Pr 16:33; 21:1parting. Heb. mother. to use.Nu 23:28; De 18:10; 1Sa 15:23; Pr 16:10; Ac 16:16he made.Or, as the Vulgate, "he mingled his arrows:" "They wrote on several arrows," says Jerome, "the names of the cities they intended to assault; and then putting them altogether promiscuously in a quiver, they drew then out thence as lots are drawn; and that city whose name was written on the arrow first drawn, was the city they first made war on." arrows. or, knives. images. Heb. teraphim.Ge 31:19,30; Jud 17:5; 18:14,18,20,24; 2Ki 23:24; Ho 3:4; 4:12Zec 10:2 captains. or battering rams. Heb. rams.4:2to lift.Ex 32:17,18; Jos 6:10,20; 1Sa 17:20; Job 39:25; Jer 51:14to appoint.4:2; Jer 32:24; 33:4; 52:4 Matthew 27:35
they crucified.Ps 22:16; Joh 20:20,25,27; Ac 4:10parted.Mr 15:24-32; Lu 23:34; Joh 19:23,24that it.Ps 22:18
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