Additions to Esther 1:4-14

4 Behold, a noise of a tumult, with thunder and earthquakes and uproar in the land!
5 And behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.
6 And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people. Œ
7 And lo, a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar upon earth!
8 And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.
9 Then they cried unto God; and upon their cry, as it were, from a little fountain was made a great flood, even much water.
10 The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted and devoured the glorious.
11 Now when Mordecai, who had seen this dream and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bore this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.
12 And Mordecai took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king and keepers of the palace.
13 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.
14 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after they had confessed it, they were strangled.
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