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Mordecai discovered a plot by two of the king’s officers to lay hands on the king and reported it through Esther (Esther 2:21–22). The matter was investigated, the men were hanged, and the event was recorded in the royal chronicles (Esther 2:23).
21In those days, while Mordecai was sitting in the king`s gate, two of the king`s chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those who kept the threshold, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the king Ahasuerus.
22The thing became known to Mordecai, who showed it to Esther the queen; and Esther told the king [of it] in Mordecai`s name.
23When inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.