Esther 3:7
And he made a + 3:7 Gr. vote by ballot. decree in the twelfth year of the reign of Artaxerxes, and cast lots daily and monthly, to kill in one day the race of Mardochaeus: and the lot fell on the fourteenth day of the month which is Adar.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
In Context
6and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.
Cross References
Nehemiah 2:1And it came to pass in the month Nisan of the twentieth year of king Arthasastha, that the wine was before me: and I took the wine, and gave it to the king: and there was not another before him.
Esther 2:16So Esther went in to king Artaxerxes in the twelfth month, which is Adar, in the seventh year of his reign.
Esther 9:21to establish these as joyful days, and to keep the fourteenth and fifteenth of Adar;
Esther 9:26Therefore these days were called Phrurae, because of the lots; (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.
Ezekiel 21:21For the king of Babylon shall stand on the old way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination, to make bright the arrow, and to enquire of the graven images, and to examine the victims.
Matthew Henry on Esther 3:2-7
Haman's Malignant Proposal. ( b. c. 510.) 1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. 2 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence. 3 Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment? 4… Read the whole commentary →