Mordecai: Informs Ahasuerus of a Conspiracy Against his Life and is Rewarded

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. …

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him. …