Esther 9&10

Meditation Verse for Book of Esther Chapter 9&10:

In Chapter 9, we read about the Royal posts from Mordecai, which gave the Jews the authority to defend themselves. The two circulars set a date for this battle, so both sides prepared for the battle.  The Feast of Purim; Mordecai and Esther sent the need to celebrate the feast as a hymn of thanks to God, who was glorified by saving His children. This feast is to teach the people and their descendants that God takes care of His children. The feast is an honor to God and an education for the people.

In Chapter 10: Mordecai is his second-in-command. He becoming great among the Jews indicates that it remained attached to its simple people and did not exalt itself separately from them. The secret of his greatness was the breadth of his heart with love for his brothers. Mordecai remembers that he saw a dream, in which God revealed to him what would happen, and that God, with His foreknowledge, knew what would happen to His people and that He was planning salvation for them. Salvation here will be at the hands of a weak woman, Esther!

“ Show me a sign for ____, That those who ____ me may see it and be ____, Because You, Lord, have ____ me and ____me” ( Psalm 86:17)

King Ahasuerus gave both ____ and ____ permission to write a new letter to reverse the one Haman had written, and Mordecai wrote the letter and sealed it with the king's ring

_____wrote a letter to all of the Jews stating that they should keep the fourteenth and the fifteenth days of Adar yearly to remind them that the Jews rested from their enemy, and also that their sorrow was turned to joy.

• Esther 

• King Ahasuerus 

• Mordecai

When Mordecai wrote the letter to the Jews regarding the celebration of Purim, the Jews obeyed him because _____

• they feared Mordecai second to King Ahasuerus

• Haman wanted to destroy them

True or False:

Esther wrote a second letter to confirm the first letter and added that they should remember the fasting and the crying as well as the feasting and the joy.

• True

• False

The greatness of Mordecai, and how the king advanced him was written in the book of —--- chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia.

• Chronicles

  
  

• Kings

  
  

• Judges

  
  

True or False:

Although Mordecai was great among the Jews, he was not accepted by the many Jews.

• True

• False

Fill in the Blank:

Mordecai said “By _____ have these things been done”

Which of these are NOT said of Mordecai?

• He was not seeking the good of his people

• He was speaking peace to all his brethren 

True or False:

Their sorrow was turned to joy for them, and from mourning to a holiday that they should make them days of feasting and joy, of sending presents to one another and gifts to the poor 

• True

• False