In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
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Gill's Exposition
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate,.... Being, as before observed, an officer at court:
two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door; of the…
Barnes' Notes
Conspiracies inside the palace were ordinary occurrences in Persia. Xerxes was ultimately murdered by Artabanus, the captain of the guard, and Aspamitras, a chamberlain and eunuch.
Adam Clarke
Mordecai sat in the kings gate - Mordecai might have been one of the officers of the king, as the gate was the place where such usually attended to await the king's call. It is not likely that he was…
This good service which Mordecai did to the government, in discovering a plot against the life of the king, is here recorded, because the mention of it will again occur to his advantage. No step is…
Cambridge Bible
In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate The main course of the story is thus resumed from Est 2:2.
chamberlains eunuchs.
Bigthan and Teresh The former is possibly the Bigtha of Est 1:10.…
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