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And 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 informed the king of them.
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Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after they had confessed it, they were strangled.
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And the king made a record of these things, and Mordecai also wrote thereof.
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So the king commanded Mordecai to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.
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However Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, who was in great honor with the king, sought to molest Mordecai and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.
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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even unto Ethiopia, over a hundred and seven and twenty provinces),
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that in those days when the King Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in the palace in Shushan,
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in the third year of his reign he made a feast unto all his princes and his servants. The power of Persia and Media, the nobles and princes of the provinces being before him,
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he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, even a hundred and fourscore days.
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And when these days had passed, the king made a feast unto all the people who were present in the palace at Shushan, both unto great and small, for seven days in the court of the garden of the king's palace.
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There were white, green, and blue hangings fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings, and pillars of marble. The beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red and blue and white and black marble.