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God's care for His people
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5th Century B.C. |
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| Give the reference and recite the verse that includes the word "... silent ...". |
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| Esther 4:14 For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this? |
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| What would arise for the Jews from another place, if Esther were to remain completely silent based on the Esther book summary? |
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| Who or what would perish based on Esther 4:14? |
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| Esther and her father's house. |
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| What question does Esther 4:14 ask? |
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| Who knows whether she (Esther) had come to the kingdom for such a time as this? |
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| Explain with at least 3 different time references, when the events in the book of Esther took place. |
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| Fifth Century B.C. During the reign of Xerxes, king of Persia. Sometime between the returns of Zerubbabel and Ezra to Jerusalem ... after the Babylonian captivity. |
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| 2 things we learned about king Xerxes from the book summary with the theme: God cares for His people. |
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| Xerxes was king of Persia and was a conceited man. |
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| Who was king Xerxes first wife and why did she get banished? |
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| Vashti. She was banished because she refused to display her beauty at a banquet. |
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| A Jewish young woman named Esther who lived near the palace with her uncle Mordecai was chosen. |
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| Why did Haman vow to destroy the Jews? |
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| Because Esther's uncle Mordecai had refused to bow down to him (Haman). |
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| Why was Esther in a perfect position to defeat Haman's plan and to save the Jews? |
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| Her uncle had told her that she was likely in her place in the kingdom for just such a time (basically because she had earned the king's favor). She was able to ask the king to attend two banquets where the sought his intervention to save her people and to expose Haman's evil plans. |
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| What plans did king Xerxes have for Mordecai before the 2nd banquet? |
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| The king Xerxes decided to honor Mordecai for having saved his life in an earlier occasion when 2 other officials had tried to assassinate him. |
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| What three things did Haman suggest to the king to do for or to give to a man who was to be honored by the king? |
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| A robe, a position of nobility, a parade. |
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| What was Haman's plan for Mordecai, not knowing Mordecai was the man the king wanted to honor? |
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| He wanted to hang Mordecai on the gallows. |
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| What did Haman have to do to Mordecai instead of his original plans to kill him and why? |
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| Haman was forced to honor him because Mordecai was the man chosen by the king to receive honors (robe, place of nobility and a parade). |
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| What ultimately happened to Haman? |
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| Once the king found out from Esther about the evil plan Haman had for Mordecai, king Xerxes ordered Haman to be hung on the very gallows he had built for Mordecai. |
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| What ultimately happened to Mordecai? |
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| He was given a powerful position in the kingdom. |
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| What happened with the plot Haman had made against the Jews? |
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| What happens despite the name of God not being mentioned in the book of Esther? |
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| God's care for His people is undeniably demonstrated throughout the book. |
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