Bible Cross References
the first month
Nehemiah 2:1
One day four months later, when Emperor Artaxerxes was dining, I took the wine to him. He had never seen me look sad before,
in the twelfth
Esther 1:3
In the third year of his reign he gave a banquet for all his officials and administrators. The armies of Persia and Media were present, as well as the governors and noblemen of the provinces.
Esther 2:16
So in Xerxes' seventh year as king, in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, Esther was brought to King Xerxes in the royal palace.
they cast Pur
Esther 9:24-26
24
Haman son of Hammedatha---the descendant of Agag and the enemy of the Jewish people---had cast lots ("purim," they were called) to determine the day for destroying the Jews; he had planned to wipe them out.
25
But Esther went to the king, and the king issued written orders with the result that Haman suffered the fate he had planned for the Jews---he and his sons were hanged from the gallows.
26
That is why the holidays are called Purim. Because of Mordecai's letter and because of all that had happened to them,
Proverbs 16:33
People cast lots to learn God's will, but God himself determines the answer.
Ezekiel 21:21
The king of Babylonia stands by the signpost at the fork of the road. To discover which way to go, he shakes the arrows; he consults his idols; he examines the liver of a sacrificed animal.
Ezekiel 21:22
Now! His right hand holds the arrow marked 'Jerusalem'! It tells him to go and set up battering rams, to shout the battle cry, to place battering rams against the gates, to throw up earthworks, and to dig trenches.
Matthew 27:35
They crucified him and then divided his clothes among them by throwing dice.
Adar
Esther 9:1
The thirteenth day of Adar came, the day on which the royal proclamation was to take effect, the day when the enemies of the Jews were hoping to get them in their power. But instead, the Jews triumphed over them.
Esther 9:5
So the Jews could do what they wanted with their enemies. They attacked them with swords and slaughtered them.
Esther 9:17-19
17
This was on the thirteenth day of Adar. On the next day, the fourteenth, there was no more killing, and they made it a joyful day of feasting.
18
The Jews of Susa, however, made the fifteenth a holiday, since they had slaughtered their enemies on the thirteenth and fourteenth and then stopped on the fifteenth.
19
This is why Jews who live in small towns observe the fourteenth day of the month of Adar as a joyous holiday, a time for feasting and giving gifts of food to one another.
Esther 9:21-19
Ezra 6:15
They finished the Temple on the third day of the month Adar in the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Darius.