PEOPLE TO REMEMBER
KING CYRUS KING DARIUS:
EZRA 1:1
EZRA 1-6
(536 BC)?
(538-516 BC)?
ESTHER QUEEN OF PERSIA (58 YEARS)
(478 BC)?
ARTAXERXES:
EZRA 7-10
ARTAXERXES LONGIMANUS:
(458-457 BC)?
(465-424 BC)?
ZERUBBABEL - SHESHBAZZAR - LEVITE
GOVERNOR OF JUDAH
HAGGAI 1:1
(536 BC)?
LEVITES WHO CAME WITH ZERUBBABEL
NEHEMIAH - PRIEST
EZRA 2:2
(536 BC)?
JEREMIAH - PRIEST
NEHEMIAH 12:1
(536 BC)?
JESHUA - HIGH PRIEST
NEHEMIAH 12:1
(536 BC)?
EZRA - PRIEST
NEHEMIAH 12:1
(536 BC)?
PEOPLE TO REMEMBER
NEBUCHADNEZZAR:
JECONIAH:
AHASUERUS:
VASHTI:
MORDECAI:
KING OF BABYLON (498 BC)?
KING OF JUDAH
(498 BC)?
KING OF PERSIA
(483 BC)?
AHASUERUS’ EX-WIFE
GREAT-GRANDSON OF KISH
- A BENJAMITE (A EUNUCH)?
HEGAI:
EUNUCH IN CHARGE OF KING’S HAREM
ESTHER:
FIRST COUSIN OF MORDECAI
BIGTHAN & TERESH: KING’S DOORKEEPERS
SHAASHGAZ :
KEEPER OF THE KING’S CONCUBINES
HIGH PRIESTS
SERAIAH
JOZADAK
JESHUA
JOIAKIM
KINGS OF PERSIA
CAMBYSES
CYRUS
DARIUS
XERXES
STOCK OF JUDAH
JECONIAH
SALATHIEL
ZERUBBABEL
HANANIAH
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 KING’S HAREM
BIGTHAN AND TERESH: KING’S DOORKEEPERS (EUNUCHS)
HAMAN:
THE AGGAGITE - DESCEDENT OF KING AGAG
HATHACH:
EUNUCH THAT ESTHER SENT TO SEE MORDECAI
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 KING’S 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
READ:
ESTHER 3:1-2
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.
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:1-2
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:1-2
WHO IS HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE?
READ: 1 SAMUEL 15:3
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:1-2
WHO IS HAMMEDATHA THE AGAGITE?
READ: 1 SAMUEL15:8-9
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:1-2
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:1-2
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 KING’S SERVANTS GREET HAMAN?
DID THE KING COMMAND THIS?
HOW DID MORDECAI GREET HAMAN?
READ:
ESTHER 3:3-5
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.
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:3-5
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:3-5
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 WOULDN’T MORDECAI PAY HIM HOMAGE?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:3-5
WHY WOULDN’T MORDECAI PAY HIM HOMAGE?
WHAT DID MOSES SAY?
READ: EXODUS 17:16
16
For he said, "Because the LORD has sworn: the LORD will
have war with Amalek from generation to generation.“
(NKJ)
READ: DEUTERONOMY 25:17
17
"Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you
were coming out of Egypt,
(NKJ)
DID MORDECAI KNOW WHO HAMAN WAS?
READ:
ESTHER 3:6-7
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.
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:6-7
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’?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:6-7
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?
READ:
ESTHER 3:8-9
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."
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:8-9
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:8-9
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
READ:
ESTHER 3:10-11
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."
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:10-11
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?
READ:
ESTHER 3:12
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.
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:12
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 SCRIBE’S 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?
READ:
ESTHER 3:13
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.
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:13
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?
READ:
ESTHER 3:14-15
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)
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:14-15
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?
QUESTIONS:
ESTHER 3:14-15
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?