BOOK OF ESTHER

Name ________________________

Score ___________

I WILL DO MY BEST TO READ THE FOLLOWING BOOK IN THIS MONTH.

CHAPTER 1

  1. FROM WHERE TO WHERE WAS THE REIGN OF AHASUERUS? FROM ____________ TO __________________
  2. THE KING MADE A FEAST. HE SHOWED THE GREATNESS OF HIS EMPIRE. THE BEDS WERE OF GOLD AND SILVER. THEY WERE UPON PAVEMENTS OF MARBLE. WHAT WERE THE COLORS OF THE MARBLE? ______, _________, __________, AND ____________
  3. WHO WAS HIS QUEEN? _________________
  4. ON A DAY WHEN THEY HAD BEEN DRINKING A GOOD DEAL, THE KING SENDS FOR HIS QUEEN. SEVEN MEN ARE SENT. WHAT OFFICE DID THEY HOLD? ______________________
  5. DID THE QUEEN WANT TO COME BEFORE THESE DRUNKEN MEN IN ORDER TO SHOW OFF HER BEAUTY? _______
  6. THE FEAR AMONG THE ADVISORS TO THE KING WAS THAT OTHER WOMEN SEEING THE ACTION OF THE QUEEN WOULD _____________ THEIR OWN HUSBANDS.
  7. THERE WAS A CONCERN THAT AMONG ALL THE WOMEN THERE WOULD ARISE BECAUSE OF THIS ACT OF THE QUEEN, TOO MUCH WHAT? ____________________ AND ______________
  8. IF THE KING REMOVED THE QUEEN THEN ALL WOMEN OF PERSIA WOULD GIVE WHAT TO THEIR HUSBANDS? _______________

    CHAPTER 2

  9. THE KING DESIRED CERTAIN WOMEN TO BE BROUGHT AND THE NEW QUEEN SELECTED FROM AMONG THEM. WHAT WORDS DESCRIBE THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE WOMEN TO BE BROUGHT? _______ _______________ __________________
  10. WHERE WAS THE PALACE LOCATED, WHERE THEY WERE TO BE BROUGHT? _______________
  11. WHO WAS THE KING’S CHAMBERLAIN OVER THIS? ___________
  12. MORDECAI WAS A JEW TAKEN FROM JERUSALEM DURING THE REIGN OF WHICH KING OF JUDAH? _____________________
  13. WHAT OTHER NAME DID ESTHER HAVE? ____________________
  14. ESTHER WAS ONE OF THE WOMEN CHOSEN WHO MIGHT BECOME QUEEN. EACH DAY MORDECAI WALKED BEFORE THE WHAT OF THE WOMEN’S HOUSE? ______________
  15. WHO WAS THE KING’S CHAMBERLAIN WHICH KEPT THE CONCUBINES? ___________________________
  16. THE KING LOVED ESTHER ABOVE ALL THE OTHER WOMEN. ESTHER OBTAINED WHAT TWO THINGS IN THE EYES OF THE KING? __________ AND ______________
  17. WHAT TWO MEN PLANNED TO KILL KING AHASUERUS? _________________ AND ________________
  18. MORDECAI TOLD ESTHER AND THE PLOT WAS MADE KNOWN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THESE TWO MEN? _________________

    CHAPTER 3

  19. HAMAN WAS PROMOTED BY THE KING. WHAT WAS HIS NATIONALITY? __________________
  20. WHAT TWO THINGS DID MORDECAI NOT DO TOWARD HAMAN THAT OTHERS DID? ________ AND _____________________
  21. HAMAN’S REACTION TO THIS IS DESCRIBED AS HIS BEING FULL OF _____________
  22. HAMAN ACCUSED THE JEWS BEFORE THE KING. ONE CHARGE HE MADE WAS THAT THE LAWS OF THE JEWS WAS WHAT? ____________________
  23. THE KING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF HAMAN MADE A DECREE WHICH WAS THE DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS. WHAT DAY OF THE FIRST MONTH WAS THE DECREE SIGNED? _______

    CHAPTER 4

  24. WHEN MORDECAI LEARNED OF THE DECREE HE DID WHAT TO HIS GARMENTS WHICH HE WAS WEARING? _________
  25. WHAT WAS HE WEARING WHICH PREVENTED HIM FROM COMING BEFORE THE KING? ________________
  26. DID MORDECAI ACCEPT THE GARMENTS SENT FROM ESTHER? ______
  27. WHO WAS THE KING’S CHAMBERLAIN WAITING ON ESTHER? ________________
  28. MORDECAI WANTED ESTHER TO GO TO THE KING ON BEHALF OF ALL THE JEWS. ESTHER UNDERSTOOD THAT IF SOMEONE WENT BEFORE THE KING WITHOUT BEING INVITED. THEY WOULD BE KILLED. THE EXCEPTION TO THIS WAS IF THE KING EXTENDED HIS WHAT _________________
  29. MORDECAI THEN APPEALED TO ESTHER IF SHE REFUSED TO HELP THEN ________________________ AND ______________________ WOULD COME FROM ANOTHER PLACE.
  30. ESTHER DETERMINES TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT. SHE CALLS FOR A FAST AMONG ALL THE JEWS. FOR HOW MANY DAYS? _____

    CHAPTER 5

  31. ESTHER GOES TO THE KING. HE EXTENDS THE SCEPTER. WHAT PART OF IT DID SHE TOUCH? _______
  32. THE KING WANTED TO GIVE ESTHER WHAT EVER SHE WANTED. HE DESCRIBED IT BY SAYING HE WOULD GIVE HER TO THE ________ ______ ______ ______________________
  33. ESTHER ASKED THE KING AND HAMAN TO COME TO A FEAST PREPARED JUST FOR THEM. WHEN HAMAN WAS GOING THROUGH THE CITY, HE SAW MORDECAI AND MORDECAI DID NOT PAY HAMAN ANY RESPECT. AS A RESULT HAMAN WAS FULL OF WHAT TOWARD MORDECAI? _____________________
  34. WHO WAS THE WIFE OF HAMAN? _______________
  35. HIS WIFE TOLD HIM TO BUILD WHAT IN ORDER TO HANG MORDECAI? __________________

    CHAPTER 6

  36. AS THE CHAPTER OPENS THE KING CANNOT SLEEP. HE WANTS A BOOK TO BE BROUGHT TO HIM. IT IS CALLED THE BOOK OF WHAT? _______________
  37. HE READS ABOUT HOW MORDECAI HAD GOT THE MESSAGE TO THE KING ABOUT THE ASSASSNATION ATTEMPT. HE THEN ASKED WHAT HAD BEEN DONE FOR MORDECAI. WHAT ONE WORD DESCRIBES WHAT HAD BEEN DONE FOR MORDECAI? __________________
  38. HAMAN COMES BEFORE THE KING. THE KING WANTED HIS ADVISE ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE MAN WHOM THE KING WANTS TO WHAT? _____________
  39. HAMAN (THINKING IT WAS HIMSELF ) SAID THE MAN SHOULD BE ARRAYED IN KINGLY GARMENTS, WEAR A CROWN AND RIDE WHAT THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE CITY? ____________

    CHAPTER 7

  40. THE KING, HAMAN AND QUEEN ESTHER COME TO THE FEAST ARRANGED BY THE QUEEN. ON WHAT DAY OF THE FEAST DID KING ASK ESTHER WHAT SHE WANTED? _____
  41. ESTHER ASKED FOR HER LIFE AND THE LIFE OF HER PEOPLE. THE KING WANTED TO KNOW WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR SEEKING THE DEATH OF ALL JEWS. HOW DOES ESTHER DESCRIBE HAMAN? ____________
  42. THE KING LEFT IN ANGER. HAMAN FEARED FOR HIS LIFE. WHEN THE KING RETURNED, HAMAN WAS ON QUEEN ESTHER’S WHAT PLEADING FOR HIS LIFE? _______
  43. THE SERVANTS OF THE KING COVERED HAMAN’S WHAT IN TAKING HIM AWAY? _________
  44. WHAT WAS THE FATE OF HAMAN? ________________

    CHAPTER 8

  45. WHAT OBJECT DID THE KING TAKE FROM HAMAN AND THEN GIVE TO MORDECAI? ________
  46. LETTERS WERE WRITTEN TO OVERRIDE THE PLANS OF HAMAN. THIS WAS DONE IN THE THIRD MONTH. WHAT IS THE NAME OF THIS MONTH? ____________
  47. THE MESSENGERS WENT OUT RIDING ON WHAT KIND OF ANIMALS TO DELIVER THE NEW LETTERS? ____________, ___________, ______________, ____________________
  48. WHAT IS THE 12TH MONTH? _________
  49. MORDECAI WAS GIVEN A ROYAL GARMENT OF WHAT? ________ AND __________. HE ALSO HAD A FINE LINEN OF WHAT COLOR? _____________

    CHAPTER 9

  50. THROUGH ALL THESE EVENTS, MORDECAI WAXED WHAT? _____________________
  51. IN SHUSHAN AND IN THE PALACE HOW MANY HUNDRED MEN DID THE JEWS KILL? _________
  52. HOW MANY SONS OF HAMAN WERE HANGED ON THE GALLOWS? ______
  53. ON THE 14TH DAY OF THE MONTH HOW MANY HUNDRED WERE KILLED? _________
  54. THE JEWS BEING VICTORIOUS OVER THEIR ENEMIES, NOW CALLED THESE FEAST DAYS, _______________
  55. WORDS WERE SENT OUT INTO ALL THE 127 PROVINCES. THEY WERE WORDS OF _____________ AND ____________

    CHAPTER 10

  56. WHAT DID THE KING LAY ON THE LAND? ______________
  57. MORDECAI SOUGHT THE _______________ OF HIS PEOPLE AND SPOKE ___________ TO ALL HIS SEED.