4. What did Mordecai tell to the royal officials for his disobedience?- he was a Jew
5. Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai.-True
6. What idea did Haman think about after seeing Mordecai’s behavior?- Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes.
7. When was the lot casted?- twelfth year of King Xerxes, in the first month, the month of Nisan
8. What is lot in Persian?-Pur
9. What day did the lot fall on?- twelfth month, the month of Adar
10. What did Haman tell to the king about the Jews?-
• There is a certain people dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom who keep themselves separate.
• Their customs are different from those of all other people, and they do not obey the king’s laws
• If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.
11. How much did Haman offer for the decree to destroy the Jews?- ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury
12. Did the king fall for Haman’s trick & if so then how?- yes he fell, king took his signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman
13. Did the king accept the money from Haman?-No
14. Who is Haman?- Son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
15. Who was summoned to write the royal decree?- Royal secretaries
16. When were the royal secretaries summoned?- Thirteenth day of the first month
17. For who all were the decree written?- They wrote out in the script of each province and in the language of each people all Haman’s orders to the king’s satraps, the governors of the various provinces and the nobles of the various peoples
18. Whose name was this decree written on?- King Xerxes himself and sealed with his own ring
19. How were the dispatches sent?-Couriers
20. Who all was these decree sent?- the king’s provinces
21. What was the decree?- order to destroy, kill and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—on a single day, the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, and to plunder their goods.
22. A copy of the text of the edict was to be issued as law in every province and made known to the people of every nationality so they would be ready for that day-True
23. The king and Haman sat down to drink after the couriers went, but the city of Susa was bewildered.-True
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