CHAPTER TWO REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. Why do you think Xerxes remembered Vashti? 2. Why would his servants suggest that he select a new queen from young virgins not presently in his harem? 3. What constituted the purification process to which these virgins were subjected? Why? 4. What was Mordecai... [ Continue Reading ]
II. Promotion of Esther, Esther 2:1-23 A. Search for a Queen TEXT: Esther 2:1-4 1 After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. 2 Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let ther... [ Continue Reading ]
B. Solicitude of Mordecai TEXT: Esther 2:5-11 5 There was a certain Jew in Shushan the palace, whose name was Mordecai, the son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjamite, 6 who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captives that had been carried away with Jeconiah king of... [ Continue Reading ]
C. Season of Preparation TEXT: Esther 2:12-14 12 Now when the turn of every maiden was come to go in to king Ahasuerus, after that it had been done to her according to the law for the women twelve months, (for so were the days of their purifications accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of my... [ Continue Reading ]
D. Selection of Esther TEXT: Esther 2:15-18 15 Now when the turn of Esther, the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her for his daughter, was come to go in unto the king, she required nothing but what Hegai the king's chamberlain, the keeper of the women, appointed. And Esthe... [ Continue Reading ]
E. Sedition Revealed TEXT: Esther 2:19-23 19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king's gate. 20 Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as w... [ Continue Reading ]