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Esther 2:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Esther 2:21-23
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
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 threshold, became angry and conspired to kill[a] King Ahasuerus.(A) 22 But the matter came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai.(B) 23 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, both men were hung on the pole. It was recorded in the book of the annals in the presence of the king.(C)
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- 2.21 Heb to lay hands on
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