For this reason these days are known as Purim, after the name of pur.

For Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had devised plans against the Jews to destroy them. He had cast pur (that is, the lot) in order to afflict and destroy them.

In the first month (that is, the month of Nisan), in the twelfth year ¹  of King Ahasuerus’ reign, pur ²  (that is, the lot) was cast before Haman in order to determine a day and a month. ³  It turned out to be the twelfth month (that is, the month of Adar). ⁴ 

For our God is indeed a devouring fire. ¹ 

and the sons of Aaron, the priest, ¹  must put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire.

After the earthquake, there was a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. After the fire, there was a soft whisper. ¹ 

You must not kindle a fire ¹  in any of your homes ²  on the Sabbath day.” ³ 

A continual fire must be kept burning on the altar. It must not be extinguished.

For the Lord your God is a consuming fire; he is a jealous God. ¹ 

Fire consumed their ¹  young men, and their ²  virgins remained unmarried. ³ 

Like the fire that burns down the forest, or the flames that consume the mountainsides, ¹ 

Fire goes before him; on every side ¹  it burns up his enemies.

He makes the winds his messengers, and the flaming fire his attendant. ¹ 

He sent hail along with the rain; ¹  there was lightning in their land. ² 

Fire burned their group; the flames scorched the wicked. ¹ 

O fire and hail, snow and clouds, ¹  O stormy wind that carries out his orders, ² 

Can a man hold ¹  fire ²  against his chest ³  without ⁴  burning his clothes?

A wicked scoundrel ¹  digs up ²  evil, and his slander ³  is like a scorching fire. ⁴ 

So I will set Gaza’s city wall ¹  on fire; fire ²  will consume her fortresses.

So I will set fire to Tyre’s city wall; ¹  fire ²  will consume her fortresses.”