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They found the account about the incident when Mordecai had reported Bigthan[a] and Teresh, the king’s two eunuchs who had controlled access to the entrance to the palace, who had tried to assassinate King Xerxes.

The king said, “What honor and recognition has been given to Mordecai for this?”

Then the servants of the king who were attending him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

The king said, “Who is in the court?” Just then Haman had come to the outer court of the king’s palace to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 6:2 Here spelled Bigthana in Hebrew. Such spelling variants are common in the biblical books.