Esther 1+2
He was the king of Media and Persia in the time of Esther.
This is a plot that Mordecai overheard.
What is a plot to kill King Xerxes?
This is why it was dangerous for Esther to approach the king.
What is she could be killed for entering his presence?
These three people were at Esther's second banquet.
Who are Esther, Haman, and King Xerxes?
This is the person that received the king's signet ring in Esther chapter 8.
Who is Mordecai?
Who was Queen Vasti?
This is the reason why Haman hated Mordecai.
What is the fact that Mordecai would not bow down in honor to Haman?
This is what Esther asked the king when she was in his throne room.
What is to come to a banquet?
This is the person who Esther told the king who was responsible for the evil edict.
Who is Haman?
This is the festival that the Jews celebrate to remember how God saved them from destruction in the book of Esther.
What is the feast of Purim?
This was the young lady who became the new queen.
Who was Esther?
This is the evil law or edict that Haman wrote because he had the king's signet ring.
What is a plot to kill all the Jews in the entire empire?
This is what Zeresh advised her husband Haman to do because he hated Mordecai.
What is to make a gallows or pole to kill Mordecai?
This is what Haman did on his knees to Esther when he realized that he was in big trouble.
What is beg Esther for his life?
This is the person that wrote the second edict.
Who is Mordecai?
This is the cousin of the new queen that raised her because she was an orphan.
Who was Mordecai?
This is what was done after Mordecai uncovered the plot to kill the king.
What is his name was written in the king's chronicles and nothing was done to honor him?
These 2 things are what the king learned on the night that he couldn't sleep.
What is that Mordecai uncovered a plot to save his life and that nothing was done to honor him?
This is what happened to Haman on the night of the second banquet.
What is being killed on the gallows or impaled on a pole?
This is the reason why the feast of Purim is named what it is.
What is the fact that Haman rolled the Purim (cast lots) to determine when to have the Jews killed?
This is the fact that Mordecai told Esther to keep a secret.
What is her Jewish nationality?
This is what Mordecai persuaded Esther to do in order to save the Jews.
What is to go before the king without being asked and ask for mercy?
This is what Haman had to do for the man the king delighted to honor.
What is to lead him on a king's horse through the town to honor him?
This is what Esther finally asked the king to do for her at the second banquet.
What is to save her people for death and destruction?
When Esther asked the king to write a second edict, this is what the Jews were able to do.
What is to defend themselves against attackers and plunder their property?