21 In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, (A)Bigthan and (B)Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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And it was found written how (A)Mordecai had told about (B)Bigthana[a] and (C)Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 6:2 Bigthana is an alternate spelling of Bigthan (see 2:21)

10 who gives victory to kings,
    who (A)rescues David his servant from the cruel sword.

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23 And the servants of Amon conspired against him and put the king to death in his house.

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20 (A)His servants arose and made a conspiracy (B)and struck down Joash in the house of (C)Millo, on the way that goes down to Silla.

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22 And when Joram saw Jehu, he said, “Is it peace, Jehu?” He answered, “What peace can there be, so long as (A)the whorings and the sorceries of your mother Jezebel are so many?” 23 Then Joram reined about and fled, saying to Ahaziah, “Treachery, O Ahaziah!” 24 And Jehu drew his bow with his full strength, and shot Joram between the shoulders, so that the arrow pierced his heart, and he sank in his chariot.

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But his servant (A)Zimri, commander of half his chariots, conspired against him. When he was at Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza, (B)who was over the household in Tirzah,

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Nadab Reigns in Israel

25 (A)Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and he reigned over Israel two years. 26 He did what was evil in the sight of the Lord (B)and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin (C)which he made Israel to sin.

27 (D)Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him. And Baasha struck him down at (E)Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines, for Nadab and all Israel were laying siege to Gibbethon.

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11 And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, (A)my own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

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Now the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, set out, and about the heat of the day they came to the house of Ish-bosheth as he was taking his noonday rest. And they came into the midst of the house as if to get wheat, and they stabbed him (A)in the stomach. Then Rechab and Baanah his brother escaped.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 4:6 Septuagint And behold, the doorkeeper of the house had been cleaning wheat, but she grew drowsy and slept. So Rechab and Baanah his brother slipped in

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