Esther 1-5, ESV

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    After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the Agagite, the son of Hammedatha, and advanced him and set his throne above all the officials who were with him. 2 And all the king's servants who were at the king's gate bowed down and paid homage to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But ______ did not bow down or pay homage.   -Est 3:1-2

    • Bigthan
    • Mordecai
    • Queen Esther
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  • 2. 

    3 And the king said to her, “What is it, Queen Esther? What is your request? It shall be given you, even to the half of my kingdom.” 4 And Esther said, “If it please the king, let the king and Haman come today to a _____ that I have prepared for the king.”   -Est 5:3

    • Fast

    • Feast

    • Meeting with refreshments

    Correct Answer
    A. Feast
  • 3. 

    12 But Queen Vashti refused to _____ at the king's command delivered by the eunuchs. At this the king became enraged, and his anger burned within him.   -Est 1:12

    • Bring her royal crown

    • Come

    • Fix her hair

    Correct Answer
    A. Come
  • 4. 

    10  Esther had not made known her people or kindred, for ____.   -Est 2:10

    • She was scared that the King would not like her if he knew

    • She did not think it was of importance

    • Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known

    Correct Answer
    A. Mordecai had commanded her not to make it known
  • 5. 

    5 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a ______, 6  who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away. 7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. 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.    -Est 2:5-7

    • Benjaminite

    • Ephraimite

    • Reubenite

    Correct Answer
    A. Benjaminite
  • 6. 

    21 In those days, as _____ was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 And this came to the knowledge of ____, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of _______. 23 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.   -Est 2:21-23

    • Ahasuerus

    • Haman

    • Mordecai

    Correct Answer
    A. Mordecai
  • 7. 

    15 Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, 16 “Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. I and my young women will also fast as you do. Then I will go to the king, though it is against the law, and if I ____, I ____.” 17 Mordecai then went away and did everything as Esther had ordered him.   -Est 4:15-17

    • Am put in jail

    • Am put out of the palace

    • Perish

    Correct Answer
    A. Perish
  • 8. 

    5 Now there was a Jew in Susa the citadel whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, a Benjaminite, 6  who had been carried away from Jerusalem among the captives carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away. 7 He was bringing up _______, that is Esther, the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. 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.   -Est 2:5-7

    • Abigail

    • Adriel

    • Hadassah

    Correct Answer
    A. Hadassah
  • 9. 

    15 “According to the law, what is to be done to Queen Vashti, because she has not performed the command of King Ahasuerus delivered by the eunuchs?” 16 Then _____ said in the presence of the king and the officials, “Not only against the king has Queen Vashti done wrong, but also against all the officials and all the peoples who are in all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.  -Est 1:15-16

    • Bigthana

    • Carkas

    • Memucan

    Correct Answer
    A. Memucan
  • 10. 

    12 Then Haman said, “Even Queen Esther let no one but ____ come with the king to the feast she prepared. And tomorrow also I am invited by her together with the king. 13 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate.”   -Est 5:12-13

    • Me

    • Mordecai

    • The eunuchs

    Correct Answer
    A. Me
  • 11. 

    10 On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha and Abagtha, Zethar and Carkas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus, 11 to bring Queen Vashti before the king with her _____, in order to show the peoples and the princes her beauty, for she was lovely to look at.   -Est 1:10-11

    • Royal cosmetics

    • Royal crown

    • Royal robe

    Correct Answer
    A. Royal crown
  • 12. 

    14 Then his ____ Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows fifty cubits high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.   -Est 5:14

    • Servant

    • Uncle

    • Wife

    Correct Answer
    A. Wife
  • 13. 

    9 And Hathach went and told Esther what Mordecai had said. 10 Then Esther spoke to Hathach and commanded him to go to Mordecai and say, 11 “All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that if any man or woman goes to the king inside the inner court without being called, there is but one law—to be put to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter so that he may live. But as for me, I have not been called to come in to the king these ____ days.”   -Est 4:9-11

    • 3

    • 13

    • 30

    Correct Answer
    A. 30
  • 14. 

    4 When Esther's young women and her eunuchs came and told her, the queen was deeply distressed. She sent garments to clothe Mordecai, so that he might take off his sackcloth, but he would not accept them. 5 Then Esther called for ______, one of the king's eunuchs, who had been appointed to attend her, and ordered him to go to Mordecai to learn what this was and why it was.   -Est 4:4-5

    • Ebed

    • Hagar

    • Hathac

    Correct Answer
    A. Hathac
  • 15. 

    13 Letters were sent by couriers to all the king's provinces with instruction to destroy, to kill, and to annihilate all Jews, young and old, women and children, in one day, the _____ day of the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.  -Est 3:13

    • 7th

    • 12th

    • 13th

    Correct Answer
    A. 13th

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