How well do you know the seventeenth book of the Bible (Esther)? It contains story about Esther and how she saved her people. The bible quiz for youth below will show how much you know the book of Esther. Although it was designed for youths, adults are also free to participate.

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Questions

1.How many chapters are in the book of Esther?
2.How many Provinces did King Xerxes reign over?
3.What was the name of the first queen of Xerxes?
4.What are the names of the seven Eunuchs of king Xerxes?
5.Why did the King order queen Vashti to be brought to him?
6.What was the offense of queen Vashti?
7.What are the names of the seven nobles of Persia and Media?
8.What punishment was given to queen Vashti?
9.Who gave the suggestion about queen Vashti punishment?
10.What was the Hebrew name of Esther?
11.What is the name of Mordecai’s cousin?
12.Esther was an orphan. True or False
13.Whose care where the maidens of susa placed?
14.Which of the jewshish tribes was Mordecai from?
15.How many attendants were female assigned to Esther?
16.What was the name of Esther’s father?
17.What are the names of the palace guards that conspired to assassinate King Xerxe?
18.Who saved King Xerxes life?
19.Who plotted to destroy the Jews?
20.What did Esther instruct Modecai to do?
21.What was the name of Haman’s wife?
22.What plan was suggested to Haman by his wife and friends?
23.Who told the King about Haman’s plan against Modecai?
24.How many people did the Jews kill at Susa?
25.How many sons did Haman have?
26.What days of Adar did Modeccai instruct the Jews to observe each year?
27.Why were the holidays called Purim?
28.What made Haman plan to kill Modecai and the other jews?
29.How many tons of silver did Modecai guarantee to put in the royal treasury?
30.Why did the jews mourn?
31.What made the King to stop the killing of the Jews?
32.What day did Haman plan to carry out his plot?
33.What did the king do when he heard about Hamans plot against Modecai?
34.How many years did the regular beauty treatment last?
35.In what year of King Xerxes’s rule was Esther brought to him?
36.What made Haman to think that he was the one that deserved the kings honour?
37.How many days did Esther ask her people to fast?
38.What are the names of the 10 sons of Haman?
39. Haman is an Agagite.True or False
40. What book did the King asked to be read before him?

Answers

1.10
2.127 1vs1
3.Queen Vashti 1vs9
4.Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas 1vs10
5.In order to display her beauty to the people and nobles, for she was lovely to look at.1vs11
6.Queen Vashti refused to come as the King commanded. 1vs12
7.Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memukan 1vs14
8.Vashti is never again to enter the presence of King Xerxes. Also let the king give her royal position to someone else who is better than she.1vs19
9.Memukan 1v16
10.Hadassah 2vs7
11.Esther 2vs7
12.True 2vs7
13.Hegai 2vs8
14.tribe of Benjamin 2vs5
15.7  2vs9
16.Abihail 2vs15
17.Bigthana and Teresh 2vs21
18.Mordecai 2vs22
19.Haman 3vs15
20.fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. 4vs15
21.Zeresh 5vs10
22. “Have a pole set up, reaching to a height of fifty cubits, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai impaled on it. Then go with the king to the banquet and enjoy yourself.” This suggestion delighted Haman, and he had the pole set up. 5vs15
23.Harbona 7vs9
24.five hundred men. 9vs6
25.ten sons 9vs10
26.The fourteenth and fifteenth days of the month of Adar 9vs12
27.Therefore these days were called Purim, from the word pur. 9vs24-26
28.When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. 3vs5-6
29.If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.” 3vs9
30. If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will give ten thousand talents of silver to the king’s administrators for the royal treasury.” 3vs13
31.Queen Esther pleaded on their behalf. 3vs10
32. twelfth month, the month of Adar. 3vs7
33.Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, “A pole reaching to a height of fifty cubits stands by Haman’s house. He had it set up for Mordecai, who spoke up to help the king.” The king said, “Impale him on it!” So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided. 7vs9-10
34. 1 year 2vs12
35. She was taken to King Xerxes in the royal residence in the tenth month, the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign. 2vs16
36.All the royal officials at the king’s gate knelt down and paid honor to Haman, for the king had commanded this concerning him.3vs2
37.Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day. 4vs15
38.Parshandatha, Dalphon, Aspatha,Poratha, Adalia, Aridatha, Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai and Vaizatha 9vs7-10
39. True 9vs24
40.Book of the chronicles 6vs1