Proposed

So the exiles did as proposed. Ezra the priest selected men who were family heads, each of them identified by name, to represent their families. On the first day of the tenth month they launched the investigation,

Then the king’s attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king,

“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”

So they proposed two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias.