Persia & The Palace
This was the Persian king who chose Esther to be his queen.
Who is King Ahasuerus?
Mordecai overheard two of the king's chamberlains plotting to do this to the king.
What is assassinate (kill) him?
Haman convinced the king to issue a decree to destroy this entire people.
What is the Jews?
Before approaching the king uninvited, Esther asked all the Jews in Shushan to do this for three days.
What is fast?
This is the name of the Persian capital city where the story or Esther takes place.
What is Shushan (Susa)?
Mordecai refused to do this to Haman, which filled Haman with wrath.
What is bow down to him?
This is the tall structure Haman built, planning to hang Mordecai on it.
What is the gallows?
Finish Esther's famous words before going in to the king uninvited:"If I perish, I ______."
What is "perish"?
On Mordecai's advice, Esther kept this fact about herself secret when she became queen.
What is that she was a Jew (her people/kindred)?
Mordecai warned Esther that if she stayed silent, deliverance would rise elsewhere, but she and her father's house would face this.
What is destruction (perish)?
Instead of Mordecai, this is what ended up happening to Haman himself.
What is he was hanged on his own gallows?
The Jewish feast, still celebrated today, commemorates the Jews' deliverance from Haman's plot.
What is Purim?
This describes the family relationship between Esther and Mordecai, who raised her.
What is cousin (he took her as his own daughter)?
Finish Mordecai's famous line: "who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as ____?"
What is "this"? (for such a time as this)
At her second banquet, Esther made this request of the king that exposed Haman's plot.
What is sparing her life and the lives of her people?
Elder Ronald A. Rasband taught that what looks like random chance is actually this, according to the lesson.
What is overseen by a loving Heavenly Father (the Lord in the small details of our lives)?