PEOPLE TO REMEMBER

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PEOPLE TO REMEMBER

• KING CYRUS - EZRA 11 (536 BC)?
• KING DARIUS EZRA 1-6 (538-516 BC)?
• ESTHER QUEEN OF PERSIA (58 YEARS) (478 BC)?
• ARTAXERXES EZRA 7-10 (458-457 BC)?
• ARTAXERXES LONGIMANUS (465-424 BC)?
• ZERUBBABEL - SHESHBAZZAR - LEVITE
• GOVERNOR OF JUDAH HAGGAI 11 (536 BC)?
• LEVITES WHO CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL
• NEHEMIAH - PRIEST EZRA 22 (536 BC)?
• JEREMIAH - PRIEST NEHEMIAH 121 (536 BC)?
• JESHUA - HIGH PRIEST NEHEMIAH 121 (536 BC)?
• EZRA - PRIEST NEHEMIAH 121 (536 BC)?

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PEOPLE TO REMEMBER

• NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON (498 BC)?
• JECONIAH KING OF JUDAH (498 BC)?
• AHASUERUS KING OF PERSIA (483 BC)?
• VASHTI AHASUERUS EX-WIFE
• MORDECAI GREAT-GRANDSON OF KISH
• - A BENJAMITE (A EUNUCH)?
• HEGAI EUNUCH IN CHARGE OF KINGS HAREM
• ESTHER FIRST COUSIN OF MORDECAI
• BIGTHAN TERESH KINGS DOORKEEPERS
• SHAASHGAZ KEEPER OF THE KINGS CONCUBINES
• HIGH PRIESTS KINGS OF PERSIA STOCK OF JUDAH
• SERAIAH CAMBYSES JECONIAH
• JOZADAK CYRUS SALATHIEL
• JESHUA DARIUS ZERUBBABEL
• JOIAKIM XERXES HANANIAH
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PEOPLE TO REMEMBER

• AHASUERUS KING OF PERSIA 478 BC?
• VASHTI AHASUERUS FIRST WIFE
• MORDECAI (A EUNUCH)?
• GREAT-GRANDSON OF KISH - A BENJAMITE
• ESTHER FIRST COUSIN OF MORDECAI
• HEGAI EUNUCH IN CHARGE OF KINGS HAREM
• BIGTHAN AND TERESH KINGS DOORKEEPERS (EUNUCHS)
  
• HAMAN THE AGGAGITE - DESCEDENT OF KING AGAG
• HATHACH EUNUCH THAT ESTHER SENT TO SEE MORDECAI

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OUTLINE ESTHER CHAPTER THREE

• MORDECAI REFUSES TO REVERENCE HAMAN V. 1-3
• HAMAN WANTS TO DESTROY ALL THE JEWS V. 4-7
• HAMAN ASKS THE KINGS PERMISSION V. 8-9
• THE KING GIVES HIM AUTHORITY TO DO SO V. 10-11
• THE DAY IS APPOINTED FOR THE MASSACRE V. 12-15

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READ ESTHER 31-2

• 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted
  Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and
  advanced him and set his seat above all the
  princes who were with him.
• 2 And all the king's servants who were within the
  king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for
  so the king had commanded concerning him. But
  Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 31-2

• 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted
  Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and
  advanced him and set his seat above all the
  princes who were with him.
• WHO IS HAMAN?
• WHO WAS HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 31-2

• WHO IS HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE?
• READ 1 SAMUEL 153
• 3 'Now go and attack Amalek, and utterly destroy
  all that they have, and do not spare them. But
  kill both man and woman, infant and nursing
  child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.' (NKJ)
• WHAT DID THE LORD TELL SAUL TO DO?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 31-2

• WHO IS HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE?
• READ 1 SAMUEL158-9
• 8 He also took Agag king of the Amalekites alive,
  and utterly destroyed all the people with the
  edge of the sword.
• 9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the
  best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the
  lambs, and all that was good, and were unwilling
  to utterly destroy them. But everything despised
  and worthless, that they utterly destroyed. (NKJ)
• DID THEY DO WHAT THE LORD COMMANDED?
• WHO DID THE SPARE? AGAG?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 31-2

• 1 After these things King Ahasuerus promoted
  Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and
  advanced him and set his seat above all the
  princes who were with him.
• WHAT DID THE KING DO FOR HAMAN?
• WHAT AUTHORITY WAS GIVEN HAMAN?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 31-2

• 2 All the king's servants who were within the
  king's gate bowed and paid homage to Haman, for
  so the king had commanded concerning him. But
  Mordecai would not bow or pay homage.
• HOW DID THE KINGS SERVANTS GREET HAMAN?
• DID THE KING COMMAND THIS?
• HOW DID MORDECAI GREET HAMAN?

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READ ESTHER 33-5

• 3 Then the king's servants who were within the
  king's gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you
  transgress king's command?"
• 4 Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily
  and he would not listen to them, that they told
  it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words
  would stand for Mordecai had told them that he
  was a Jew.
• 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay
  him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 33-5

• 3 The king's servants who were within the king's
  gate said to Mordecai, "Why do you transgress
  king's command?"
• 4 Now it happened, when they spoke to him daily
  and he would not listen to them, that they told
  it to Haman, to see whether Mordecai's words
  would stand for Mordecai had told them that he
  was a Jew.
• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE SAY TO MORDECAI?
• HOW DID HE RESPOND TO THEIR COMMENTS?
• WHY DID THEY TELL HAMAN?
• WHAT HAD MORDECAI TOLD THEM?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 33-5

• 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow or pay
  him homage, Haman was filled with wrath.
• WHAT DID HAMAN SEE?
• WHY WAS HAMAN FILLED WITH WRATH?
• WHY WOULDNT MORDECAI PAY HIM HOMAGE?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 33-5

• WHY WOULDNT MORDECAI PAY HIM HOMAGE?
• WHAT DID MOSES SAY?
• READ EXODUS 1716
• 16 For he said, "Because the LORD has sworn the
  LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to
  generation. (NKJ)
• READ DEUTERONOMY 2517
• 17 "Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as
  you were coming out of Egypt, (NKJ)
• DID MORDECAI KNOW WHO HAMAN WAS?

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READ ESTHER 36-7

• 6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai
  alone, for they had told him of the people of
  Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all
  the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of
  Ahasuerus-- the people of Mordecai.
• 7 In the first month, which is the month of
  Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus,
  they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to
  determine the day and the month, until it fell on
  the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 36-7

• 6 But he disdained to lay hands on Mordecai
  alone, for they had told him of the people of
  Mordecai. Instead, Haman sought to destroy all
  the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of
  Ahasuerus-- the people of Mordecai.
• WHAT DID HAMAN WANT TO DO TO MORDECAI?
• WHY DID HAMAN CHANGE HIS MIND?
• WHAT DID THE PEOPLE TELL HAMAN?
• WHAT DID HE SEEK TO DO TO ALL THE JEWS?
• WHY CALL THEM THE PEOPLE OF MORDECAI?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 36-7

• 7 In the first month, which is the month of
  Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus,
  they cast Pur (that is, the lot), before Haman to
  determine the day and the month, until it fell on
  the twelfth month, which is the month of Adar.
• WHY DID THEY CAST PUR (LOT)?
• WHAT WERE THEY TRYING TO DETERMINE?

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READ ESTHER 38-9

• 8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a
  certain people scattered and dispersed among the
  people in all the provinces of your kingdom
  their laws are different from all other people's,
  and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore
  it is not fitting for the king to let them
  remain.
• 9 "If it pleases the king, let a decree be
  written that they be destroyed, and I will pay
  ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of
  those who do the work, to bring it into the
  king's treasuries."

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 38-9

• 8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a
  certain people scattered and dispersed among the
  people in all the provinces of your kingdom
  their laws are different from all other people's,
  and they do not keep the king's laws. Therefore
  it is not fitting for the king to let them
  remain.
• WHAT DID HAMAN SAY TO THE KING?
• WHO WERE THESE PEOPLE?
• DOES HAMAN IDENTIFY THEM AS JEWS?
• WHY WERE THEIR LAWS DIFFERENT?
• WHAT DOES HAMAN WANT THE KING TO DO?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 38-9

• 9 "If it pleases the king, let a decree be
  written that they be destroyed, and I will pay
  ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of
  those who do the work, to bring it into the
  king's treasuries.
• WHAT DID HAMAN REQUEST THE KING TO DECREE?
• WHY SHOULD IT BE WRITTEN?
• WHAT WAS HAMAN WILLING TO PAY FOR THIS?
• 2,000,000 - 3,000,000 BRITISH POUNDS

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READ ESTHER 310-11

• 10 So the king took his signet ring from his hand
  and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the
  Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
• 11 And the king said to Haman, "The money and the
  people are given to you, to do with them as seems
  good to you."

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 310-11

• 10 So the king took his signet ring from his hand
  and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the
  Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
• 11 And the king said to Haman, "The money and the
  people are given to you, to do with them as seems
  good to you.
• WHY DID THE KING GIVE HAMAN HIS SIGNET RING?
• WHAT AUTHORITY DID THIS RING GIVE HAMAN?
• WHAT DID THE KING SAY TO HAMAN?
• WHAT PEOPLE DID HE GIVE TO HAMAN?
• DID THE KING KNOW WHO THESE PEOPLE WERE?

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READ ESTHER 312

• 12 Then the king's scribes were called on the
  thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree
  was written according to all that Haman
  commanded-- to the king's satraps, to the
  governors who were over each province, to the
  officials of all people, to every province
  according to its script, and to every people in
  their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it
  was written, and sealed with the king's signet
  ring.

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 312

• 12 Then the king's scribes were called on the
  thirteenth day of the first month, and a decree
  was written according to all that Haman
  commanded-- to the king's satraps, to the
  governors who were over each province, to the
  officials of all people, to every province
  according to its script, and to every people in
  their language. In the name of King Ahasuerus it
  was written, and sealed with the king's signet
  ring.
• WHAT DID THE SCRIBES DO ON THE 13TH DAY?
• WHERE WAS THIS DECREE TO BE PUBLISHED?
• BY WHOSE AUTHORITY WAS IT DECREED?
• DID THE KING KNOW WHAT HAMAN WAS DOING?

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READ ESTHER 313

• 13 And the letters were sent by couriers into all
  the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to
  annihilate all the Jews, both young and old,
  little children and women, in one day, on the
  thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the
  month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 313

• 13 And the letters were sent by couriers into all
  the king's provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to
  annihilate all the Jews, both young and old,
  little children and women, in one day, on the
  thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the
  month of Adar, and to plunder their possessions.
• WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THESE LETTERS ?
• WHEN WAS THIS TO BE CARRIED OUT?
• WHY PLUNDER THEIR POSSESSIONS?

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READ ESTHER 314-15

• 14 A copy of the document was to be issued as law
  in every province, being published for all
  people, that they should be ready for that day.
• 15 The couriers went out, hastened by the king's
  command and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan
  the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to
  drink, but the city of Shushan was
  perplexed. (NKJ)

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 314-15

• 14 A copy of the document was to be issued as law
  in every province, being published for all
  people, that they should be ready for that day.
• WHERE WERE THESE LETTERS PUBLISHED?
• ALL 127 PROVINCES?
• WERE THE JEWS ADVISED OF THIS?
• HOW LONG DID THEY HAVE TO PREPARE?
• HOW WOULD THEY PREPARE THEMSELVES?

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QUESTIONS ESTHER 314-15

• 15 The couriers went out, hastened by the king's
  command and the decree was proclaimed in Shushan
  the citadel. So the king and Haman sat down to
  drink, but the city of Shushan was
  perplexed. (NKJ)
• WHY DID THE COURIERS HASTEN?
• WHY PROCLAIM THIS DECREE IN SHUSHAN?
• WHAT WAS HAMAN AND THE KING DOING?
• WHY WERE THE PEOPLE OF SHUSHAN PERPLEXED?

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