Topic
Feast of Purim, or Lots, The
10 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1897 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Esther 3:7–15Torrey To commemorate the defeat of Haman's wicked design
¶ 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. ¶ And Haman said unto king…
- Esther 9:17Torrey Began fourteenth of twelfth month
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.
- Esther 9:17–19Torrey Mode of celebrating
On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness. But the Jews that were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenth day thereof, and on the fourteenth thereof; and…
- Esther 9:20Torrey Instituted by Mordecai
¶ And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,
- Esther 9:21Torrey Lasted two days
To stablish this among them, that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, and the fifteenth day of the same, yearly,
- Esther 9:22Torrey Mode of celebrating
As the days wherein the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month which was turned unto them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day: that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts…
- Esther 9:24–26Torrey To commemorate the defeat of Haman's wicked design
Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them; But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by…
- Esther 9:27Torrey The Jews bound themselves to keep
The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;
- Esther 9:28Torrey The Jews bound themselves to keep
And that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memorial of them perish from their seed.
- Esther 9:29–32Torrey Confirmed by royal authority
Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority, to confirm this second letter of Purim. And he sent the letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with…
In the topical indexes
Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897) · 10 references, grouped by sub-topic
- Instituted by Mordecai Es 9:20
- To commemorate the defeat of Haman's wicked design Es 3:7-15; 9:24-26
- Began fourteenth of twelfth month Es 9:17
- Lasted two days Es 9:21
- Mode of celebrating Es 9:17-19,22
- The Jews bound themselves to keep Es 9:27,28
- Confirmed by royal authority Es 9:29-32
Texts: Torrey's New Topical Textbook (1897), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.