Cross references

Esther 8:12

The single day appointed throughout all the provinces of King Xerxes was the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.

Esther 8:12 BSB
  1. a Adar is the twelfth month of the Hebrew lunar calendar, usually occurring within the months of February and March.

Esther 8:12 has 4 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Esther 9:1 (6 votes) and Esther 3:13–15 (3 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Exodus 15 to Acts 23.

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Which verses does Esther 8:12 point to?

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  1. Esther 9:16 votes

    On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s command and edict were to be executed. On this day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, but their plan was overturned and the Jews overpowered those who hated them.

  2. And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month. A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued in every province and published to all the people, so that they would be ready on that day. …

  3. The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’ But You blew with Your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.

  4. As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes. Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.

Which verses point to Esther 8:12?

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