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Week 7: Esther

Week 7: Esther 1-10

Objective: 

  • The King Dethrones Queen Vashti

  • Esther Becomes Queen

  • Haman’s Conspiracy Against the Jews

  • Esther Agrees to Help her People

  • Haman’s Plot Against Mordecai

  • The King Honors Mordecai

  • Haman Hanged Instead of Mordecai

  • Esther Saves the Jews

  • The Feast of Purim

  • Mordecai’s Advancement

Resources:

Reading:

  • Esther 1:1-20
  • Esther 2:1-23
  • Esther 3:1-11
  • Esther 4:10-17
  • Esther 5:1-9

Key verse(s):

“The king loved Esther more than all the other women, and she obtained grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins.”  Esther 2:17

Comments:

  • The story of Queen Esther takes place during the Persian kingdom between the return of the first and second waves to Jerusalem by Zerubbabel and Ezra.
  • King Ahasuerus made a feast for seven days. He was drinking a lot and did not make wise decisions. He asked for his wife, Queen Vashti, to come so he could show off his beautiful wife. She refused to go.
  • The king's counselors told him he couldn't accept this because all men in the kingdom would get disrespected and humiliated by their wives.
  • When the king was sad, one of his counselors suggested bringing all the beautiful girls into the kingdom so the king could choose a wife.
  • Estehr's Jewish name was Hadassah. She was raised by her uncle Mordecai. Mordecai learned about the plot against the king and informed the king about it. When the king realized that Mordecai saved his life, he honored him to be at his palace.
  • Haman was a descendant of King Agag whom King Saul did not kill. He got promoted and was loved by King Ahasuerus. Haman wanted to kill all the Jews because Mordecai did not bow to him. Mordecai only worships the One and True God.
  • Mordecai asks Esther to intercede for her people to the king to save them from Haman's evil plan. Esther found grace and favor in the king's eyes and was able to save the Jews.

Review/recap questions:
**Servant may add more questions

  1. Three particulars are mentioned regarding the Sabbath. What are they?
  2. Men of which tribe lived in Jerusalem?
  3. What was the king’s command concerning the sons of Asaph?
  4. How did the Levites celebrate the dedication of the wall?
  5. Who lead each of the two thanksgiving choirs?
  6. Nehemiah asked God to remember him and what else?
  7. What is wrong in having children who do not speak the language of Judah?

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

  1. The people made a vow to give how much of a shekel to the service of the House of the Lord?
    a) one quarter b) one third c) one half d) one whole shekel
  2. The Levites shall bring up a ________ of the ______ to the house of our _________. 
  3. The people cast a lot to chose how many to live in Jerusalem?
    a) one third b) one fifth c) one half d) one out of ten
  4. What did the singers receive?
    a) a quota day by day b) the tithe c) the first fruit
  5. Where did the singers live?
    a) In the palace b) in Jerusalem c) in villages all around Jerusalem d) in the desert
  6. What was stored in the rooms of the storehouse?
    a) the offerings b) the first fruitsc) the tithes d) all of these
  7. The Ammonites or the Moabites should not come into the Assembly of God because they did not give the children of Israel:
    a) bread and water b) wood to build the temple c) gold and silver d) the tithes
  8. What did Eliashib prepare for Tobiah?
    a) A big feast b) a large room c) a palace d) horses and soldiers
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