Esther 6:2

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It was found written what Mordecai had reported about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the doorway, who had conspired to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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  • Esth 2:21-22 : 21 During those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, became angry and plotted to assassinate King Ahasuerus. 22 When Mordecai learned about the plot, he informed Queen Esther, and she reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

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  • Esth 2:21-23
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    21During those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, became angry and plotted to assassinate King Ahasuerus.

    22When Mordecai learned about the plot, he informed Queen Esther, and she reported it to the king, giving credit to Mordecai.

    23The matter was investigated and confirmed, and both men were hanged on the gallows. This was recorded in the book of chronicles in the presence of the king.

  • Esth 6:1
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    1That night, the king couldn’t sleep, so he commanded that the book of records, the chronicles, be brought in and read before him.

  • Esth 6:3-5
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    3The king asked, "What honor or recognition has been given to Mordecai for this?" The king’s servants who attended him replied, "Nothing has been done for him."

    4The king asked, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the king’s palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.

    5The king’s servants said to him, "Haman is standing in the courtyard." The king said, "Let him come in."

  • Esth 10:2-3
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    2All his powerful acts, his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had promoted, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

    3For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus. He was great among the Jews, popular with most of his people as one who sought the good of his people and spoke peace to all his descendants.

  • Esth 3:6
    76%

    6But he considered it beneath him to attack Mordecai alone, for they had told him about Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.

  • Esth 1:10
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    10On the seventh day, when the king was in high spirits from the wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven eunuchs who served in the presence of King Ahasuerus,

  • Ezra 6:1-2
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    1Then King Darius issued a decree, and a search was made in the archives where treasures were stored in Babylon.

    2And a scroll was found in the citadel of Ecbatana in the province of Media, and this was written in it as a record:

  • Esth 3:3
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    3Then the king's servants who were at the gate asked Mordecai, "Why do you transgress the king's command?"

  • Esth 2:19
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    19When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

  • Esth 8:1-2
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    1On that day, King Ahasuerus gave Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came into the king’s presence because Esther had revealed how he was related to her.

    2The king removed his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther appointed Mordecai over Haman’s estate.

  • Esth 6:14
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    14While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

  • Esth 4:12
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    12When Mordecai was informed of what Esther said,

  • Esth 4:5-7
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    5Then Esther summoned Hathach, one of the king’s eunuchs appointed to attend her, and ordered him to find out what was troubling Mordecai and why.

    6Hathach went out to Mordecai in the square of the city in front of the king's gate.

    7Mordecai told him everything that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money Haman had promised to pay into the king's treasury for the destruction of the Jews.

  • Esth 1:2
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    2At that time, King Ahasuerus sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa.

  • Esth 9:1-3
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    1On the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month of Adar, the king’s decree and command were to be carried out. On the day the enemies of the Jews had hoped to dominate them, the situation was reversed, and the Jews gained mastery over those who hated them.

    2The Jews gathered in their cities throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus to strike those who sought their harm. No one could stand against them, for the fear of them had fallen upon all the people.

    3All the officials of the provinces, the satraps, the governors, and those doing the king’s work supported the Jews, because fear of Mordecai had fallen upon them.

  • Esth 8:7
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    7King Ahasuerus said to Queen Esther and to Mordecai the Jew, 'Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he has been hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.'

  • Esth 6:10
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    10Then the king said to Haman, "Go quickly and take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have said."

  • Ezra 4:6
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    6At the beginning of the reign of Ahasuerus, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.

  • Esth 1:14-15
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    14The closest advisers to the king were Carshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena, and Memucan, the seven princes of Persia and Media, who had access to the king's presence and held the highest positions in the kingdom.

    15The king asked, 'According to the law, what is to be done with Queen Vashti for not obeying the command of King Ahasuerus conveyed through the eunuchs?'

  • Esth 2:11
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    11Every day, Mordecai walked back and forth near the courtyard of the harem to find out how Esther was and what was happening to her.

  • Esth 3:12
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    12On the thirteenth day of the first month, the king’s scribes were summoned and an edict was written according to all that Haman commanded. It was addressed to the satraps of the king, to the governors of each province, and to the officials of every people, to each province in its script and to each people in its language. It was written in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed with the king’s signet ring.

  • Esth 6:12
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    12Afterward, Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered in shame.

  • Esth 2:1-2
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    1After these events, when King Ahasuerus’s anger had subsided, he remembered Vashti, what she had done, and what had been decreed against her.

    2Then the king’s attendants said, "Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

  • Esth 8:5
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    5She said, 'If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and if the matter seems right to the king, and if I am pleasing in his eyes, let a decree be written to revoke the letters devised by Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.'

  • Esth 2:5-6
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    5Now there was a Jewish man in the citadel of Susa whose name was Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish, a Benjaminite.

    6He had been taken into exile from Jerusalem with the exiles who were deported with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had taken into exile.

  • Esth 9:20
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    20Mordecai recorded these events and sent letters to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, both near and far,

  • Esth 7:8-9
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    8When the king returned from the palace garden to the house of the wine banquet, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was. The king exclaimed, "Will he even assault the queen in my own house?" As the words left the king’s mouth, Haman’s face was covered.

    9Then Harbona, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said, "Look! The gallows that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke up for the king’s benefit, is standing at Haman’s house, fifty cubits tall." The king said, "Hang him on it!"

  • Esth 2:8
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    8When the king’s command and decree were heard, and many young women were gathered to the citadel of Susa under the custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken to the king’s palace and placed under the custody of Hegai, who was in charge of the women.

  • Esth 9:25-26
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    25But when the matter came before the king, he ordered by letter that the wicked scheme Haman had devised against the Jews should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

    26That is why these days were called Purim, from the word pur. Therefore, because of everything written in this letter, and because of what they had witnessed and what had happened to them,

  • Esth 3:9
    72%

    9If it pleases the king, let a decree be written to destroy them, and I will weigh out ten thousand talents of silver into the hands of those who carry out the work, to be deposited in the king’s treasuries."

  • Esth 8:9
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    9The king’s scribes were summoned on that day, the third month (the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day, and an edict was written exactly as Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps, governors, and officials of the 127 provinces from India to Cush, each province in its own script and language, and to the Jews in their own script and language.

  • Esth 4:9
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    9Hathach returned and reported Mordecai’s message to Esther.

  • Esth 9:32
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    32And the command of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim, and it was written in the book.