The king could not sleep, so he ordered the book of memorable deeds—the chronicles—to be brought and read to him (Esther 6:1). The reading reached the account of Mordecai’s report about the assassination plot (Esther 6:2).
In Esther 6:1–3, the king has a sleepless night and chooses to have the royal record book read aloud. In the reading, he hears again about Mordecai’s earlier report that exposed an assassination attempt. The king immediately asks what public recognition Mordecai received for saving him. These verses sit at a turning point in the story, immediately after Esther’s first banquet where she delays her request until the next day (Esther 5). The tension is high because Haman is preparing to act against Mordecai, and the next scene will bring Haman into the king’s presence.
Esther 6:1–3 presents a chain of ordinary court events: the king cannot sleep, he orders the royal records read aloud, the reading lands on Mordecai’s earlier report of an assassination attempt, and the king discovers Mordecai was never rewarded. The text’s explicit focus is administrative memory—what is “written” and what the king does once he is reminded.
A careful answer keeps the immediate passage, the book's argument, and the whole-Bible storyline together, so the question is answered in context instead of as a detached idea.
Start with Esther 6:1, then read the surrounding section so the answer stays connected to the passage's flow.
1On that night the king couldn`t sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.