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Week 7: Queen 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. ThreeKing particularsAhasuerus areheld mentioneda regardinggreat thefeast Sabbath.and Whathe aresummoned they?
    2. his
  2. Menqueen ofbecause whichhe tribewanted: lived
    a) into Jerusalem?display her beauty b) he wanted her to dance c) he wanted to deport her
  3. What washappened to Queen Vashti when she refused the king’king's command concerningto come to him?
    a) she was beheaded b) she was dethroned c) she was imprisoned
  4. Who raised Esther?
    a) her father, Abihail b) her maid, Dinah c) her cousin, Mordecai
  5. Who wanted to lay hand on the sonsking? of
    a) Asaph?Esther b) Mordecai c) Bigthan and Teresh
  6. Haman was angry because Mordecai refused to:
    a) pay him taxes b) bow to the king c) bow to Haman
  7. Haman wanted the Jews to be destroyed. How did the Levitesking celebraterespond?
    a) granted Haman's request b) ordered Haman to make peace c) refused Haman request
  8. What did Mordecai request from Esther?
    a) have Haman poisoned b) flee with the dedicationJews c) ask the king to spare Esther's people
  9. Esther asked the Jews to:
    a)fast for three days b) offer a sacrifice c) appear in sackcloth
  10. When Esther went before the king, what did she request?
    a) the presence of the wall?
    11. king
  11. Whoand leadHaman eachat a banquet b) the Jews' safe exit from the land c) the protection of the twoking's thanksgiving choirs?
  12. Nehemiah asked God to remember him and what else?
  13. What is wrong in having children who do not speak the language of Judah?guard

Homework:
**Servant may add more questions

  1. TheWhy peopledid madethe king command that Queen Vashti be brought to him?
  2. What was worrying Memucan in regards to Vashti's behavior?
  3. How did Hegai treat Esther? (Esther 2:9) 2. How did the king celebrate Esther as a vowqueen? to(Esther give2:18)
  4. Show how muchHaman ofwas aan shekelimportant man. (Esther 3:1-2)
  5. What did Haman suggest to the serviceking concerning the Jews? (Esther 3:9)
  6. What is the law concerning who goes into the inner court of the Houseking ofwithout invitation? (Esther 4:11
  7. Why did Esther ask the Lord?
    a) one quarter b) one third c) one half d) one whole shekel
  8. The Levites shall bring up a ________ of the ______Jews to thefast? house(Esther of our _________. 
  9. 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 ten4:15)
  10. What did the singersking receive?
    a)offer aEsther quotaeven daybefore byknowing dayher b)request? the(Esther tithe c) the first fruit
  11. Where did the singers live?
    a) In the palace b) in Jerusalem c) in villages all around Jerusalem d) in the desert
  12. What was stored in the rooms of the storehouse?
    a) the offerings b) the first fruitsc) the tithes d) all of these
  13. 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
  14. What did Eliashib prepare for Tobiah?
    a) A big feast b) a large room c) a palace d) horses and soldiers5:3)
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