Esther 9:26
Pur - This Persian word signifies a lot, because Haman had by lot determined this time to be the time of the Jews destruction.
24 because Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, ahad plotted against the Jews to annihilate them, and had cast Pur (that is, the lot), to consume them and destroy them;
25 but awhen Esther came before the king, he commanded by letter that2 this wicked plot which Haman had devised against the Jews should breturn on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
26 So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of athis letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had happened to them,
27 the Jews established and imposed it upon themselves and their descendants and all who would ajoin them, that without fail they should celebrate these two days every year, according to the written instructions and according to the prescribed time,
28 that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city, that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, and that the memory of them should not perish among their descendants.
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Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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