Esther 9:26 - Exposition

Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur . They took the Persian word, that is, and gave it a Hebrew plural, either because the Persian method of casting involved the use of several lots, or because Haman cast "Pur" several times ( Esther 3:7 ). For all the words of this letter . i.e. "on account of what was said in Mordecai's letter to them" ( Esther 9:20 ). And of that which they had seen , etc. "And on account of what they had themselves seen anti suffered." Mordecai's arguments were backed up by their own personal experience, and the recollection of what "had come to them,"