Ester 9:26

Schlachter Bibel

Darum werden diese Tage Purim genannt, nach dem Worte Pur. Um deswillen und wegen alles dessen, was in dem Schriftstück stand, was sie selbst gesehen und erfahren hatten,

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
Daher sie diese Tage Purim nannten nach dem Namen des Loses. Und nach allen Worten dieses Briefes und dem, was sie selbst gesehen hatten und was an sie gelangt war,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they called: Numbers 16:40, Ezekiel 39:11

Pur: that is, Lot

letter: Esther 9:20

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Wherefore they called these days Purim, after the name of Pur,.... The lot; because of the lots cast by Haman; see Esther 3:7,

therefore for all the words of this letter; in obedience to what Mordecai wrote in his letter to the Jews, and because of the things contained in it:

and of that which they had seen concerning this matter; with their own eyes, in the several provinces where their enemies rose up to assault them, but were destroyed by them:

and what had come unto them: by report; as the fall of Haman, and advancement of Mordecai, and the favours shown to Esther and her people; all this belongs to the following verse, containing the reasons of the Jews' appointment and engagement to observe the days of Purim.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 9:26. They called these days Purim — That is from [Persian] pari, the lot; because, as we have seen, Haman cast lots to find what month, and what day of the month, would be the most favourable for the accomplishment of his bloody designs against the Jews. See on Esther 3:7.

And of that which they had seen — The first letter to which this second refers, must be that sent by Mordecai himself. See Esther 9:20.