Esther 3:7 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

they cast. From 1st Nisan 46 2 Timothy 1 3th Adar 462.

Pur. Persian for "lot". The reference is to "the monthly prognosticates" of Isaiah 47:13. This was to fix on. fortunate time. Compare Esther 9:24.

Esther 3:7

7 In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, to the twelfth month, that is, the month Adar.