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Mordecai woke up from this dream in which he saw what God planned to do. He thought about it all day and tried to understand what it meant.
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While Mordecai was resting in the courtyard of the palace, where two of the king's eunuchs, Gabatha and Tharra, were on guard,
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he overheard them plotting together. He listened carefully to what they were saying and learned that they were making plans to kill the king. So Mordecai went to King Xerxes and told him about the plot of the two eunuchs.
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The king had them questioned, and when they confessed, they were led away and executed.
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The king had an account of this written in the official records, and Mordecai also wrote an account of it.
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Then the king appointed Mordecai to a position at court and gave him many gifts as a reward for what he had done.
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But Haman son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean who was respected by the king, tried to cause trouble for Mordecai and his people the Jews, because Mordecai had been responsible for the death of the two eunuchs.
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These things happened in the time of King Xerxes, who ruled 127 provinces, all the way from India to Ethiopia, from his royal throne in Susa, Persia's capital city.
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In the third year of his reign, the king gave a banquet for all his advisers, the representatives of the other countries, the noblemen from Persia and Media, and the governors of the provinces.
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For six whole months he made a show of the riches of the imperial court with magnificent and expensive celebrations.