‏ Esther 9:24-26

the enemy.

10; 3:5-13

Pur.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.

3:7

consume. Heb. crush.

when Esther came. Heb. when she came.

13,14; 7:5-10; 8:1-14

return.

Ps 7:16; 109:17,18; 140:9; 141:10; Mt 21:44

they called.

Nu 16:40; Eze 39:11

Pur. 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 1:7

Ac 1:26

‏ Ezekiel 21:21-22

the king.

Pr 16:33; 21:1

parting. Heb. mother. to use.

Nu 23:28; De 18:10; 1Sa 15:23; Pr 16:10; Ac 16:16

he 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; 4:12

Zec 10:2

captains. or battering rams. Heb. rams.

4:2

to lift.

Ex 32:17,18; Jos 6:10,20; 1Sa 17:20; Job 39:25; Jer 51:14

to appoint.

4:2; Jer 32:24; 33:4; 52:4

‏ Matthew 27:35

they crucified.

Ps 22:16; Joh 20:20,25,27; Ac 4:10

parted.

Mr 15:24-32; Lu 23:34; Joh 19:23,24

that it.

Ps 22:18
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