Mordecai Discovers a Plot

Esther 2

¹⁹ When virgins were gathered together a second time, Mordecai sat within the king's gate. ²⁰ _l Now Esther had not revealed her family and her people, just as Mordecai had charged her, for Esther obeyed the command of Mordecai as when she was brought up by him. ²¹ In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, ₁ Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. ²² So the matter became known to Mordecai, _m who told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name. ²³ And when an inquiry was made into the matter, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a gallows; and it was written in _n the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

1. Cross References
   Esther 2:10
   Esther had not revealed her people or family, for Mordecai had charged her not to reveal it.
   Proverbs 22:6
   Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it.
   
2. Cross References
   Esther 6:1
   That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
   Esther 6:2
   And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
   
3. Cross References
   Esther 6:1
   That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
   

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