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Esther

Introduction

A Topical Outline

Drunk With Blood

Trivia Questions

Chapters

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Injustice
Cruelty and Violence
Intolerance
Family Values
Absurdities
Women
Sex
Contradictions
Boring Stuff
Good Stuff

Dwindling in Unbelief
-Esther

Drunk With Blood:
God's Killings in the Bible
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SAB Book

Drunk With Blood

Strange Flesh: The Bible and Homosexuality

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Esther Trivia:

The Book of Esther

CHAPTERS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Introduction

OUTLINE

1 Vashti refuses to entertain the king's drunken guests
2 Esther wins the fair young virgin contest (and becomes queen)
Two men are hanged for conspiring to kill the king
3 Haman and the king schedule a kingdom-wide kill-the-Jews day
4 Mordecai asks Esther for help
5 Esther's dinner party
Haman plans to hang Mordecai
6 The king honors Mordecai
7 Haman is hanged on the gallows he built to hang Mordecai
8 The king permits the Jews to kill those who might kill them
9 The Jews slaughter more than 75,000 people
They celebrate the slaughter with a two-day party (Purim)
10 Mordecai was great among Jews