Esther 2:19-23

GOD’S WORD Translation

Mordecai Saves the King’s Life

¹⁹ When the virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. ²⁰ Esther still had not revealed her family background or nationality, as Mordecai had ordered her. Esther always did whatever Mordecai told her, as she did when she was a child.

²¹ In 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 planned to kill King Xerxes. ²² But Mordecai found out about it and informed Queen Esther. Then Esther told the king, on behalf of Mordecai. ²³ When the report was investigated and found to be true, the dead bodies of Bigthan and Teresh were hung on a pole. The matter was written up in the king’s presence in his official record of daily events.