1. Did the king remember Queen Vashti after the decree?- yes, he remembered Vashti and what she had done and what he had decreed about her
2. What did the king’s personal attendant propose?-
• Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.
• Let the king appoint commissioners in every province of his realm to bring all these beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa.
• Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let beauty treatments be given to them.
• let the young woman who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti.”
3. Which of the king’s eunuch is in charge for woman?- Hegai
4. Who was Mordecai?- Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin[a] king of Judah
5. Who is Nebuchadnezzar?- king of Babylon
6. What was Mordecai’s cousin? -Esther
7. What’s Esthers Hebrew name?- Hadassah
8. How did Mordecai consider Esther?- Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
9. What does the Bible say about Esther?- young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful
10. Esther won the favor of Hegai who had charge of the harem
11. What did Heigai do for Esther?- Immediately he provided her with her beauty treatments and special food. He assigned to her seven female attendants selected from the king’s palace and moved her and her attendants into the best place in the harem.
12. How many attendants were assigned for Esther?-7 attendants
13. What did Mordecai tell Esther not to do?- revealed her nationality and family background
14. Every day he walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.-True
15. How many months of beauty treatment did a young woman had to go through and why?-
• she had to complete twelve months of beauty treatments prescribed for the women, six months with oil of myrrh and six with perfumes and cosmetics.
• Anything she wanted was given her to take with her from the harem to the king’s palace.
• In the evening she would go there and in the morning return to another part of the harem to the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch who was in charge of the concubines
• She would not return to the king unless he was pleased with her and summoned her by name.
16. Who was Esther’s Dad?- Abihail
17. When was Esther taken to the king?- She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign.
18. What did the king do announcing Esther as the queen?- king gave a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his nobles and officials. He proclaimed a holiday throughout the provinces and distributed gifts with royal liberality.
19. Who were angry about the king & what did they do?- Bigthana[b] and Teresh, two of the king’s officers who guarded the doorway, became angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
20. Who found about the plot & what was the reaction?- Mordecai found out about the plot and told Queen Esther, who in turn reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai. And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled on poles.
21. Where were these events recorded?- book of the annals
22. This was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.-True
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