Esther 2:20-22

GOD’S WORD Translation

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.