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Chapter XII · Vol. III, pp. 1546–1547

2 The conspiracy of the two eunuchs is discovered by Mardocheus, for which he is entertained by the king, and rewarded.

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1 AND Mardocheus took his rest in the court ¹with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.

1 Esth. 2. 21.

2 ²And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.

2 Esth. 2. 21. & 6. 2.

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3 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, ³they were strangled.

3 Matt. 5. 21, 22. 1 John 3. 15.

4 And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.

5 So the king commanded Mardocheus to serve in the court, ⁴and for this he rewarded him.

4 Esth. 6. 3.

6 Howbeit ⁵Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

5 ch. 10. 7. Jos. Antiq. lib. 11. cap. 6.