Esther 7&8

Meditation Verse for Chapter 7&8 for the Book of Esther: 

In chapter 7, we read about the second banquet that Queen Esther did for the King and Haman when she asked her request to save her people. At the end of this chapter, we read about the king’s punishment of Haman.

In Chapter 8: the king rewards Mordecai and Esther. Esther asks the king to save her people. The king answered her request by writing a new decree to keep the lives of all the Jewish people. The Jews in every City had joy and feast after the new decree.

1. Complete the Verse: “But as for you, you meant …………against me; but God meant it for ……….. in order to bring it about as it is this day, to ………… many people ………..” Genesis 50:20

1. Queen Esther requested to let her life be given to her at her petition, and her people at her request. (verse 3)

• True

• False

1. Who was terrified before the king and queen? 

• 1. Harbonah

• 1. Haman

• Mordecai

1. As the word left the ______ mouth, they covered _________ face. (verse 8)

1. So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for __________.

• 1. Mordecai

• Queen Esther 

• No one 

      The king took off his signet ring and gave it to Haman.

• 1. True

• False

         Fill in the blank: And the king held out the ________ scepter toward _______. (chapter 8, verse 4)

       So the King’s scribes were called at that time, in the ______ month.

• 1. Second

• 1. Fifth 

  2.  

• Third 

And he wrote in the name of ______ _________, sealed it, and sent letters by courier on horseback. 

The Jews had light and gladness, joy and honor. (Verse 16)

• True

• False