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Who was the kings wife before the feasts
Vashti
100
Who was Mordecai a descendant of?
King David
100
How many tribes of the jews where there and how were they split and what were the capital..
12 tribes of the Jew and they were divided into two kingdoms (northern and southern).
- The kingdom of Judah (Southern kingdom) consisted of the tribes of Judah and Benjamin. Jerusalem was the capital
- The kingdom of Israel (Northern kingdom) consisted of the 10 tribes and there wasn’t a specific capital, it would change all the time.
100
What is the Sequel of Esther, how many chapters and why were they removed.
“Sequel of Esther” are 6 chapters that the Protestants removed from our current bible because they don’t believe it should be in the bible.
100
Length of time a young woman had to prepare before meeting the king
a year, 6 month oils and 6 months perfumes
200
The King hosted two feasts. how long was each one, where was it held and who was invited.
The first feast lasted 180 days and it was only for officials and princes of all the cities and states he oversaw. It was inside the palace
The second feast lasted 7 days and it was for the common people of his kingdom. It was outside the palace in the garden.
200
What is Esther's Jewish name
Hadassah
200
How long were the Israelites in captivity by the Babylon's?
70 years
200
The OT books are categorized into 2 main sections: First Cannon books and second cannon books.
Who collected the first cannon books? and when were the second cannon books collected?
The first cannon books were collected by Ezra the prophet as mentioned in the Book of Maccabees.
The second cannon books were collected after Ezra’s death, the early Christian church considered them as authentic deuterocanonical books.
200
The king extended this to indicate that a person’s life would be spared for entering his court unbidden
golden scepter
300
What was Mordecai's job and what did he discover about the king that he informed Esther of and how was he rewarded at the moment.
Mordecai was a guard or a doorkeeper, He discovered that two of the ggraurds where plotting to kill the king. H informed Esther and his name was written in the book of the chronicles
300
Ahasuerus was a title like Pharaoh what was the kings real name.
Xerxes I son of Darius the king
300
What is Purim?
The 14th & the 15th became an official Jewish Holiday (Purim) according to the decree that Esther and Mordecai wrote.
300
What 2 books of the bible were written at the same time as Esther during the period of the Persians ruling for the Jews?
Ezra and Nehemiah
300
What is the number of biblical books with a woman's name as the title
Two
- Esther
- Ruth
400
How did Esther get the King to met with her to help her people? What was her request from the King?
Esther and Mordecai agreed to Fast and pray and that Esther would find a way to go to the king. She got dressed in her royal cloths, took two maids because she was afraid of meeting the king alone, and went to see the king. She fainted after she saw the king because he was full or rage & anger because she went to the court to see him without being asked to come in.
God changed the king’s heart because of her fast & prayers and the king ran to her to comfort her and calm her down.
She asked the king to come attend the feast that she prepared for him & for Haman. She prepared everything that the king pleases so she can appeal to him with her request.
400
Who was Haman a descendant of and who did God order to kill his people in the old testament.
Haman was a descendants of the Amalek people who God ordered Saul to kill them all, but Saul didn’t. (1 Samuel 15
400
Who many provinces did the king rule over and from where to where?
127 provinces stretching from India to Ethiopia
400
The correct order of the chapters of the book or Esther
Chapter 11
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 12
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 16
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Who were some of the prophets after the captivity?
Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi.
500
What was Mordecai's dream? What did it represent?
Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land: And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great. And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people. And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth. And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish. Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water. The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
500
In the king’s letter, he mentioned that Haman was “a Macedonian both in mind and ancestry, and foreign to Persian blood.” Explain why?
We know that Haman is from the descendants of Agag who used to live around Sinai.
But the king used that terminology to resemble him to the Macedonian’s who were known for deception and divisions all the time & that he is foreign to the Persian’s traditions & manners.
500
Tell me about the 3 captivites
1. first captivity happened in 606 BC by king Nebuchadnezzar (Daniel 1:1) and 3,023 Jews were taken into captivity.
2. The second captivity led to the capture of Jeconiah king of Jerusalem and all his family. King Nebuchadnezzar destroyed all the golden utensils that king Soliman had made, and he took with him all the treasury of the house of the Lord. 832 jews were taken into captivity.
3. The third captivity and the destruction of Jerusalem happened in 586, where everything was destroyed including the walls of Jerusalem and the temple. Around 745 people were taken into captivity.
500
Name 5 of the deuterocanonical books
500
The sequel of Esther as told was found and added at the time of the reign of who?
Ptolemy & Cleopatra, & Dositheus in the year 77BC.