Bible Questions:#845-861
by Joyce Webb
Esther
845. Chp. 2:21 Mordecai worked in the king’s palace. One day he heard two guards talking about something. What were they talking about? ______________________
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846. Chp. 2:22 Who did Mordecai tell? ________________________
847. Vs. 23 What happened to the two guards? ______________________________
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848. Chp. 3: 1 Who becomes the new prime minister? ________________________
Haman is an Agagite. Josephus, a writer of history from Jesus’ time, said that Haman was from the group of people called Amalekites. Amalek was a son of Esau with one of his concubines.
The familes of Amalek became a group of people who were against God. And they were against God’s people. They came to fight against the Hebrew people when they were in the wilderness after coming out of Egypt. Gen. 17:8
God said he would be against Amalek. He told the Hebrew people to fight against them. He told Saul to destroy them all. At that time, their king was Agag.
I Samuel 15:8, 17-20, 32-33 Deut. 25:19 Exo. 17:14
So when Haman was made prime minister, Mordecai was not happy to see it. He would not bow down to Haman and show him that kind of respect.
Haman learned that Mordecai was a Jew.
849. What does Haman plan to do? __________________________________________
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850. What does Haman tell the king? _________________________________________
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851. How much silver does he promise the king? _______________________________
(If you have a modern English Bible—-it tells how many tons it was. )
852. On what day are the Jews to be killed? ________________________________
853. On what day did they send out the message? ______________________________
After all the Jews were killed, the killers were allowed to take their houses, lands and animals.
854. What did Mordecai do when he heard the message? _______________________
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855. Chp. 4:5 When Esther heard about Mordecai, she asked Hathach to do what?
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856. Chp. 4:8 Mordecai asked Esther to go to the king and try to change his mind. What would happen to Esther if she went before the king and he had not asked to see her?
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857. Had Esther seen the king recently? _____________ How long had it been since she had been with the king? ____________________________________________________
858. Chp. 4:13 What did Mordecai tell Esther about her “secret” of being a Jew?
Would she be able to keep it a secret? __________ (She would die like all the others. Someone would tell the king. So, if she was going to die anyway she might as well try to go before the king and try to save her life.)
859. Chp. 4:14 (last part of the verse) What does Mordecai tell her? ___________
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Maybe this was the reason God let her be chosen the queen.
860. Chp. 4:19 What does Esther ask for Mordecai to have the Jewish people to do?
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And Esther says she will do the same.
861. And then after 3 days, she will do what? ________________________________
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