19 When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is how your slave treated me,” he burned with anger.(A)

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19 And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

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19 So it was, when his master heard the words which his wife spoke to him, saying, “Your servant did to me after this manner,” that his (A)anger was aroused.

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21 During the time Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthana[a] and Teresh, two of the king’s officers(A) who guarded the doorway, became angry(B) and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:21 Hebrew Bigthan, a variant of Bigthana

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 hands on the king Ahasuerus.

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21 In those days, while Mordecai sat within the king’s gate, two of the king’s eunuchs, [a]Bigthan and Teresh, doorkeepers, became furious and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

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  1. Esther 2:21 Bigthana, Esth. 6:2

The king got up in a rage,(A) left his wine and went out into the palace garden.(B) But Haman, realizing that the king had already decided his fate,(C) stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.

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And the king arising from the banquet of wine in his wrath went into the palace garden: and Haman stood up to make request for his life to Esther the queen; for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

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Then the king arose in his wrath from the banquet of wine and went into the palace garden; but Haman stood before Queen Esther, pleading for his life, for he saw that evil was determined against him by the king.

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12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion,(A)
    but his favor is like dew(B) on the grass.(C)

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12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; but his favour is as dew upon the grass.

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12 (A)The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion,
But his favor is (B)like dew on the grass.

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