Background and Recap
This is the people that Esther belonged to.
Who are the Jews?
This is how Esther revealed the plot of Haman.
This is how Haman wanted to kill Mordecai.
What is hang him on the gallows (or impale him on a spear)?
This is how Haman died.
What is he was hanged on his own gallows (or impaled on a his own spear)?
Esther is the final book in this section of the Bible.
What is "OT history/narrative"?
This is the empire Persia conquered.
What is Babylon?
This is how the Bible describes Esther's appearance.
What is "The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter."
This is how Haman planned to destroy the Jews.
What is "let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king’s business, that they may put it into the king’s treasuries."
This is what Mordecai did when he heard of the kings edict to allow the Jews to be killed.
What is he "tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes"
Haman sought to kill Haman but had to do this instead.
What is honor Haman throughout the city?
This is the law of the Persians if someone approached the king without being summoned.
This is who raised Esther.
Who is Mordecai?
This is how Mordecai saved the king.
What is he discovered a plot against his life, warned Esther, and Esther warned the king?
This is why Haman hated Mordecai.
What is Mordecai refused to bow to Haman?
FILL IN THE BLANK:
"Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I ______, I ______"
What is "perish" and "perish"?
This is the time period that Esther takes place in.
What is the exile?
This is what Esther asked for when the king offered up to half his kingdom.
What is the king and Haman come to a feast she has prepared?
This is the relationship that the man who raised Esther had to her.
What is "cousin" (lit, "daughter of his uncle") will also accept "uncle" since this is a common interpretation.
Who is Haman?
FILL IN THE BLANK:
"And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a ____ as this?”
What is "time"?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the name of the king in the book of Esther, this is the city he ruled from.
Who is Ahasuerus, and Susa?
DAILY DOUBLE
This is the original queen of the book of Esther, this is why she was deposed.
Who is Queen Vashti, and because she would not dance for the king at his feast in front of the guests.
DAILY DOUBLE
This is what the king did after his first queen refused him, this is why he did it.
What is "a decree was made that Vashti was no longer queen, and that all women will give honor to their husbands, high and low alike" and because "the queen’s behavior will be made known to all women, causing them to look at their husbands with contempt"
DAILY QUADRUPLE
This is Esther's Hebrew name.
What is "Hadassah?"
DAILY DOUBLE — Theological Reasoning
Is beauty objective or subjective? How do you know? Defend your answer with information from Esther.
Beauty is both objective (she is beautiful) and subjective (I behold her beauty). Consider that the Bible describes Esther as having a "beautiful figure and was lovely to look at."