CHAPTER Esther 9:1-9 REVIEW QUESTIONS 1. What is the purpose of the Jews gathering in their cities? 2. How did the princes and satraps and governors help the Jews? 3. How far did the Jews go in destroying those who hated them? 4. What is peculair about the Masoretic listing of the ten sons... [ Continue Reading ]
X. Preservation of the Jews, Esther 9:1-19 A. Power TEXT: Esther 9:1-5 1 Now in the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, on the thirteenth day of the same, when the king's commandment and his decree drew near to be put in execution, on the day that the enemies of the Jews hoped to have rule o... [ Continue Reading ]
B. Progress TEXT: Esther 9:6-15 6 And in Shushan the palace the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men. 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha, 8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha, 9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha, 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hamme... [ Continue Reading ]
C. Peace TEXT: Esther 9:16-19 16 And the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and slew of them that hated them seventy and five thousand; but on the spoil they laid not their hand. 17 This was done... [ Continue Reading ]
XI. Purim Instituted, Esther 9:20-32 A. Practiced TEXT: Esther 9:20-22 20 And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far, 21 to enjoin them that they should keep the fourteenth day of the month Adar, a... [ Continue Reading ]
B. Perpetuated TEXT: Esther 9:23-28 23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as Mordecai had written unto them; 24 because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast Pur, that is, the lot, to cons... [ Continue Reading ]
C. Posted TEXT: Esther 9:29-32 29 Then Esther the queen, the daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, wrote with all authority to confirm this second letter of Purim. 30 And he sent letters unto all the Jews, to the hundred twenty and seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, with words of... [ Continue Reading ]