20
Esther had not yet shewed her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her: for Estherdid the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.
21
In those days, while Mordecaisat in the king'sgate,two of the king'schamberlains,Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to layhand on the kingAhasuerus.
23
And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were bothhanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles*before the king.