Esther 2:23

English Standard Version

²³When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows.^[a] And it was recorded in ^(A)the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

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Footnotes

Esther 2:23 Or wooden beam or stake; Hebrew tree or wood. This Persian execution practice involved affixing or impaling a person on a stake or pole (compare Ezra 6:11)

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Esther 10:2

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²And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, ^(A)to which the king advanced him, are they not written in ^(B)the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

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