Ester 6:2

Schlachter Bibel

Da fand sich, daß darin geschrieben war, wie Mardochai angezeigt habe, daß Bigtana und Teres, die beiden Kämmerer des Königs, die an der Schwelle hüteten, darnach getrachtet hatten, Hand an den König Ahasveros zu legen.

Parallel Translations

Lutherbible (1912)
fand sich's geschrieben, wie Mardochai hatte angesagt, daß die zwei Kämmerer des Königs, Bigthan und Theres, die an der Schwelle hüteten, getrachtet hätten, die Hand an den König Ahasveros zu legen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bigthana: Esther 2:21, Bigthan

door: Heb. threshold

Reciprocal: Ruth 2:3 - hap was Esther 2:22 - and Esther certified Esther 2:23 - the book Esther 7:9 - who had spoken Ecclesiastes 9:15 - yet

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And it was found written,.... Upon reading, and in which there was also a peculiar hand of Providence, directing to the reading of that part of them in which the affair of Mordecai was registered: and if what the latter Targum says is true, it was the more remarkable, that when Shimshai the scribe, who was ordered to bring the book and read, and who, according to the former Targum, was Haman's son, seeing what was recorded of Mordecai, turned over the leaves of the book, being unwilling to read it; but the leaves rolled back again, and he was obliged to read it:

that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the King Ahasuerus; see Esther 2:21, and it was usual in such diaries to record the names of persons, who, by any actions, had deserved well of the king, that they might be rewarded as there was an opportunity for it; and such, in the Persian language, were called Orosangae, as Herodotus relates o.

o Urania, sive, l. 8. c. 85.