Esther 2:22

When More-dek-eye found out what they were planning to do, he told Esther and she told the king what More-dek-eye had said.

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In The King James Version

And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai’s name.

In Context

21One day while More-dek-eye was sitting near the gate to the palace, 2 of the men who were the guards at the door to the king's private rooms got angry with the king. Their names were Big-thana and Ter-resh, and they made plans to kill the king.

23The king sent some men to make sure that the story was true. They found out that the 2 men really were planning to kill the king. So the king sent his soldiers to put the 2 men up on wooden poles until they were dead. The king told one of his workers to write down in The Book about the Persian Nation how More-dek-eye saved the king.

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Cross References

Esther 6:1In those days it was someone's job to write down in a book everything that happened in the country of Persia. It was called The Book about the Persian Nation. When the supper with Queen Esther was finished, King Zerk-sees went home to sleep. But he could not go to sleep, so he asked one of his workers to get The Book about the Persian Nation, and read it to him.

Matthew Henry on Esther 2:22-23

Mordecai's Discovery of a Plot. ( b. c. 510.) 21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus. 22 And the thing was known to Mordecai, who told it unto Esther the queen; and Esther certified the king thereof in Mordecai's name. 23 And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of… Read the whole commentary →

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