Esther

What did a girl have to complete before she could go in to King Xerxes?

Twelve months of beauty treatments.

Who made a feast for the women in the royal house which belonged to king Ahasuerus? 1:9

Vashti the queen.

Why was it important to seal a new decree with the king's signet ring?

No document written in the king's name and sealed with his ring could be revoked.

What did Esther ask Mordecai and all the Jews in Susa to do to help her prepare to go see the king?

Not to eat or drink for three days.

What did Esther ask for when it was her turn to go to the king?

Nothing other than what Hegai the king's eunuch suggested.

What power where king Ahasuerus' nobles and princes of the provinces? 1:3

Of Persia and Media.

Where did King Ahasuerus reign from? 1:2

On the throne in his kingdom, which was in Shushan.

What did Esther do as she pleaded with the king?

She fell at his feet and wept.

Why had Mordecai brought up Hadassah?

She had neither father nor mother.

What did Queen Esther do when Mordecai told her about the plot to kill the king?

She reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

What did Esther ask of the king at the banquet?

To come tomorrow with Haman to another banquet, then she would answer the king's question.

What message did Mordecai send back to Esther?

To go into the king's presence to beg for mercy and plead with him for her people.

What request did Esther make of the king?

To grant her life and to spare her people.

What advice did Haman's wife Zeresh and all his friends tell him to do about Mordecai?

To have a gallows built and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged.

What is meant by, "to know the times?" 1:13

To know law and judgment.

After the king's anger subsided, what did his personal attendants propose?

To let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

What was Haman's suggestion to the king about how to honor someone?

To put the royal robe on the man and lead him through the streets on the king's horse, proclaiming that the king was honoring him.

Why did king Ahasuerus command the seven chamberlains to bring Vashti the queen before the king? 1:11

To shew the people and the princes her beauty.

Because of the king's order and edict, where was Esther taken?

To the king's palace and entrusted to Hegai.

What did Memucan say would arise due to hearing of the deed of the queen? 1:18

Too much contempt and wrath.

To whom did King Ahasuerus make a feast unto? 1:3

Unto all his princes and his servants.

At the banquet, what was the king willing to give Esther if she had asked?

Up to half the kingdom.

What was Memucan's answer to King Ahasuerus? 1:16

Vashti the queen hath not done wrong to the king only, but also to all the princes, and to all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

What did king Ahasuerus say to the wise men at his feast? 1:13

What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?

According to Memucan, when shall all the wives give to their husbands honour, both to great and small? 1:20

When the king's decree which he shall make shall be published throughout all his empire.

What colors were the hangings in the court of the garden of king Ahasuerus' palace? 1:6

White, green and blue.

Describe what was seen in the court of the garden of king Ahasuers' palace? 1:6

White, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds wre of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

With what were the hangings in the court of the garden of king Ahasuerus' palace fastened with? 1:6

With cords of fine linen.

How were the Jews to celebrate this victory?

With feasting and joy and giving presents of food to one another and gifts to the poor.

How many chamberlains served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king? 1:10

Seven.

How tall were the gallows built near Haman's house?

Seventy-five feet high.

Who was given permission to carry out the new edict for a second day?

The Jews in Susa.

How many days had passed since Esther had been called to go into the king?

Thirty days.

What did Mordecai do every day to find out how Esther was?

He walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem.

What did Mordecai say would happen if Esther remained silent?

She and her father's family would perish.

What did Memucan say shall come abroad unto all women? 1:17

This deed of the queen.

What did king Ahasuerus appoint to all the officers of his house? 1:8

That they should do according to every man's pleasure.

How did Haman respond when Mordecai wouldn't honor him?

He was enraged and looked for a way to destroy all of Mordecai's people.

What did Mordecai do with the clothes Esther sent him to put on instead of the sackcloth

He would not accept them.

What command did Mordecai not obey regarding Haman.

He would not kneel down or pay him honor.

Into whose care were the beautiful girls placed when they were brought to Susa?

Hegai the king's eunuch.

What happened with Mordecai's reputation?

His reputation spread throughout the provinces, and he became more and more powerful.

What did Haman do when he realized the king had already decided his fate?

He stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

What was sent into all the king's provinces? 1:22

Letters.

Who had carried Mordecai into exile from Jerusalem?

Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon.

What provinces did Ahasuerus rule over? 1:1

127 provinces stretching from India to Ethopia.

What was the name of Esther's father?

Abihail.

How were the letters, according to the writing thereof, published? 1:22

According to the language of every people.

Esther pleased Hegai and won his favor, so what did he give her?

Beauty treatments, special food, and seven maids from the king's palace.

What were the women given while in the harem?

Beauty treatments.

Why did people of other nationalities become Jews?

Because fear of the Jews had seized them.

Why was Mordecai held in high esteem by his fellow Jews?

Because he worked for the good of his people and spoke up for the welfare of all the Jews.

Why did Mordecai not enter the king's gate?

Because no one clothed in sackcloth was allowed to enter it.

What words of encouragement did Mordecai give Esther to help her decide to go to the king?

"And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?"

What answer was given to the king regarding Mordecai's reward?

"Nothing has been done for him."

When the king was read the story about Mordecai discovering the plot to assassinate him, what did he ask?

"What honor and recognition had Mordecai received for this?"

What did Esther tell the king was her reason for disturbing him?

Because she and her people had been sold for destruction and slaughter and annihilation.

What was the law that the queen Vashti vilated? 1:15

Because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains.

Why did the king order the book of the chronicles to be brought in and read to him?

Because the king could not sleep.

Why did the king question the wise men at the feast? 1:13

Because they knew the times.

While sitting at the king's gate, whom did Mordecai overhear conspiring to assassinate King Xerxes?

Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's officers who guarded the doorway.

What was Mordecai's response to learning of the law to destroy the Jews?

He tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and ashes, and went out into the city, wailing loudly and bitterly.

How many enemies of the Jews were killed across all the provinces?

75000

What do rural Jews observe on the fourteenth of the month of Adar?

A day of joy and feasting, a day for giving presents to each other.

How did the king send the new law to all parts of the kingdom?

A dispatch was sent to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language.

Who was invited to the 7 day feast given by Ahasuerus? 1:5

All the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great and small.

How long did Ahasuerus display the vast wealth of his kingdom and the splendor and glory of his majesty? 1:4

An hundred and fourscore(80) days.

When did Mordecai want them to celebrate their victory?

Annually on the 14th and 15th days of the month of Adar.

Who were the Jews given permission to destroy, kill, and annihilate?

Any armed force of any nationality or province that might attack them and their women and children.

What could a girl take with her to the king's palace?

Anything she wanted from the harem.

Who brought all the beautiful girls to the harem at the citadel in Susa?

Appointed commissioners in every province.

What was Vashti the queen's response to the command of king Ahasuerus? 1:12

But the queen Vashti refused to come.

How did Mordecai send out the new dispatches to the provinces?

By mounted couriers riding fast horses especially bred for the king.

Be specific: Who sat next to king Ahasuerus at the feast? 1:14

Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memucan.

What did Esther do after the king held out his gold scepter?

Esther approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

What confirmed the regulations about Purim established by Mordecai?

Esther's decree.

Who was to participate in this celebration?

Every generation of every family in every province and every city.

How many men were destroyed in the citadel of Susa by the Jews

Five hundred men.

Why did king Ahasuerus want to shew the people and the princes queen Vashti's beauty? 1:11

For she was fair to look on.

Esther went to the king a second time and begged for what?

For the king to put an end to the evil plan of Haman to destroy the Jews.

What did Esther ask the King when she was in the court?

For the king, together with Haman, to come that day to a banquet Esther had prepared.

What was Mordecai wearing when he left the king's presence after sending out the new law?

Garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold, and a purple robe of fine linen.

How were Mordecai and Hadassah related?

Hadassah was his cousin, whom he had brought up.

What other name was Esther known by?

Hadassah.

Whom did Haman think the king wanted to honor?

Haman himself.

Who did Esther say had planned the destruction of the Jews?

Haman.

Who did King Xerxes honor, giving him a seat of honor high than that of all other nobles?

Haman.

Who did the king consult about what to do for a man the king wanted to honor?

Haman.

What did they do to the sons of Haman

Hanged them on the gallows.

Whom did Esther send to find out what was troubling Mordecai?

Hathach, one of the king's eunuchs.

What was the king's response to Haman's request?

He gave Haman his signet ring, told him to keep the money and do with the people as he pleased.

When the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, what did he do?

He held out to her the gold scepter that was in his hand.

After leading Mordecai through town, what did Haman do?

He rushed home, with his head covered in grief.

Where did king Ahasuerus make the feast? 1:5

In the court of the garden of the king's palace.

When was Esther taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence?

In the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.

In what year of King Ahasuerus reign did he make a feast unto all his princes and his servant? 1:3

In the third year.

What were the king's guest given drink in? 1:7

In vessels of gold.

Where were did king Ahasuerus send letters? 1:22

Into all the king's provinces.

How did people find out about the new law to destroy all of the Jews?

It was issued as law in every province and made known to people of every nationality.

Mordecai was carried into exile with what king?

Jehoiachin, King of Judah.

Who spoke these words: " What shall we do unto the queen Vashti according to law, because she hath not performed the commandment of the king Ahasuerus by the chamberlains?" 1:15

King Ahasuerus.

What did King Ahasuerus do in the third year of his reign? 1:3

Made a feast.

Be specific: whom did king Ahasuerus command to bring Queen Vashti to him? 1:10

Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas.

Who were the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king? 1:10

Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas.

According to the word of who did the king Ahasuerus? 1:21

Memucan.

Who answered before the king and the princes? 1:16

Memucan.

After leaving the banquet, why did Haman become filled with rage against Mordecai?

Mordecai did not rise up nor show fear in Haman's presence.

Who did the king tell Haman to go and honor in this way?

Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate.

Who did the king give his signet ring to once he had reclaimed it from Haman?

Mordecai.

What did they call these two days of celebration?

Purim.

What had Mordecai forbidden Esther to do?

Reveal her nationality and family background.

What was given in abundance to all the people at the feast made by king Ahasuerus? 1:7

Royal wine.

For how many days did the king make a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace? 1:5

Seven

How did King Xerxes make Esther queen instead of Vashti?

She won his favor and approval more than any of the other virgins.

What did Memucan say the women would do when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not? 1:17

So that they shall despise their husbands in their eyes.

How much did Haman offer to pay into the royal treasury for the men to carry out the destruction of the Jews?

Ten thousand talents of silver.

How many sons of Haman did the Jews in the citadel of Susa kill?

Ten.

What was the royal commandment suggested by Memucan? 1:19

That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Why were letters, according to the writing thereof, sent into all the king's provinces? 1:22

That every man should bear rule in his own house.

The king saw Haman begging Esther to save him, but thought he was doing what?

That he was trying to molest the queen.

What did Haman's wife and friends believe was going to happen to Haman?

That he would come to ruin.

Why would a royal commandment be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes? 1:19

That it be not altered.

Where was a full account of the greatness of Mordecai written?

The book of the annals of the kings of Media and Persia.

What was to brought with Vashti the queen at the command of king Ahasuerus?

The crown royal.

On the 13th day of the 12th month, what did the enemies of the Jews hope for?

The enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them.

What did King Xerxes give to Esther after Haman was hanged?

The estate of Haman.

How did the suggestion from Haman's wife and friends make Haman feel?

This suggestion delighted Haman.

Which girl would be queen instead of Vashti?

The girl who pleased the king.

What did the king extend to Esther the second time she went to him?

The golden scepter.

What was the deed that Memucan said shall come abroad unto all women? 1:17

The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

Who dined with Queen Esther at the second banquet?

The king and Haman.

Who was pleased by the saying of Memucan? 1:21

The king and the princes.

What was the way for the king to show an exception to killing of a person who approached the king without being summoned?

The king could extend his gold scepter to him.

Who did Memucan say the queen Vashti hath done wrong? 1:16

The king, all the princes and all the people that are in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus.

During the feast made by king Ahasuerus what was the drinking in accordance to? 1:8

The law.

Who helped the Jews because they were afraid of Mordecai?

The nobles, satraps, governors and king's administrators.

What part of the edict did the Jews in Susa not follow?

The part that allowed them to plunder the property of their enemies.

What was the response of other nationalities to the Jews as the Jews protected themselves?

The people of all the other nationalities were afraid of them.

What right did the king's new edict give the Jews?

The right to assemble and protect themselves.

Who were summoned to help write out the new decree of the king?

The royal secretaries.

Whom did king Ahasuerus command to bring Queen Vashti to him? 1:10

The seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

Who were Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas? 1:10

The seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king.

Who sat the first in the kingdom? 1:14

The seven princes of Persia and Media

Who sat next to king Ahasuerus at the feast? 1:14

The seven princes of Persia and Media.

How many men did the Jews in Susa kill on the second day of carrying out the new edict?

Three hundred men.

On what day did the new edict give permission for the Jews to protect themselves?

The thirteenth day of the Twelfth month, the month of Adar.

What Jewish tribe was Mordecai from?

The tribe of Benjamin.

What month was chosen to destroy the Jews?

The twelfth month (the month of Adar).

What reasons did Ham give King Xerxes for wanting to destroy the Jews?

Their customs were different than all other people and they did not obey the king's laws.

What did the Jews do in every province after the edict was ordered?

There was great mourning with fasting, weeping, and wailing.

What was the response of the Jews in every province and city when the new edict of the king arrived?

There was joy and gladness, with feasting and celebrating.

How did the king react when Queen Vashti refused to come? 1:12

Therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him.

How was a date chose to destroy the Jews?

They cast the pur (the lot).

How did the king punish Haman for his plan to destroy the Jews?

They hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai.

What did the law say was to happen to any man or woman who approached the king in the inner court without being summoned?

They must be put to death.

What was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment? 1:13

They sat next unto him.

How were the two officials punished?

They were hanged on a gallows.

What day was selected to destroy all of the Jews?

Thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar.