7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, ver. 15the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
17 the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set ch. 1:11;6:8the royal crown2:17 Or headdress on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.
21 In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, [ch. 1:10;6:2] Bigthan and ch. 6:2Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, ch. 6:2;[ch. 7:9]and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. 23 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows.2:23 Or wooden beam or stake; Hebrew tree or wood. This Persian execution practice involved affixing or impaling a person on a stake or pole (compare Ezra 6:11) And it was recorded in ch. 6:1;10:2the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.