Lots, Feast of Purim
8 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
7 sections
The: Began Fourteenth of Twelfth Month
- Esther 9:17 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy.
The: Confirmed by Royal Authority
- Esther 9:29–32 So Queen Esther daughter of Abihail, along with Mordecai the Jew, wrote with full authority to confirm this second letter concerning Purim. …
The: Instituted by Mordecai
- Esther 9:20 Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews in all the provinces of King Xerxes, both near and far,
The: Lasted Two Days
- Esther 9:21 to establish among them an annual celebration on the fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar
The: Mode of Celebrating
- Esther 9:17–19 This was done on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar, and on the fourteenth day they rested, making it a day of feasting and joy. …
- Esther 9:22 as the days on which the Jews gained rest from their enemies and the month in which their sorrow turned to joy and their mourning into a holiday. He wrote that these were to be days of feasting and joy, of sending gifts to one …
The: The Jews Bound Themselves to Keep
- Esther 9:27–28 the Jews bound themselves to establish the custom that they and their descendants and all who join them should not fail to celebrate these two days at the appointed time each and every year, according to their regulation. …
The: To Commemorate the Defeat of Haman's Wicked Design
- Esther 3:7–15 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan, the Pur (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman to determine a day and month. And the lot fell on the twelfth month, the month of Adar. …
- Esther 9:24–26 For Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them and had cast the Pur (that is, the lot) to crush and destroy them. …
Related topics
PurimRevenge by HamanThe Lot used to Fix the Time for the Execution of Condemned PersonsPost of Ahasuerus
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.