Esther 9:24-26
Read Esther 9 in full →24For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the adversary of all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to cause them to perish and ahad cast Pur, that is the lot, to throw them into confusion and cause them to perish. 25But awhen it came before the king, he said by letter bthat his evil scheme, which he had 1devised against the Jews, cshould return on his own head and that he and his sons should be hanged on the 2gallows. 26Therefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur. Therefore, abecause of the words in this letter, both what they had seen in this regard and what had reached them,