Ester 2:21

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Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Bermula, maka pada masa Mordekhai duduk di dalam pintu istana baginda berbangkitlah amarah Bijtan dan Teresy, kedua penjawat baginda dari pada segala penunggu ambang, maka dicaharinya jalan hendak membunuh baginda raja Ahasyweros.

Contextual Overview

²¹ At the same time (whyle Mardocheus sate in the kinges gate) two of ye kinges chamberlaynes, Bigthan and Theres, which kept the doore, were wroth, and sought to lay their handes on the king Ahasuerus: ²² Whereof also Mardocheus gat knowledge, and tolde it vnto queene Esther, and Esther certified the king therof in Mardocheus name. ²³ And when inquisition was made, it was founde so, and they were both hanged on tree: and it was written in the Chronicles before the king.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Bigthan: Esther 6:2, Bigthana

door: Heb. threshold

and sought: 2 Samuel 4:5, 2 Samuel 4:6, 2 Samuel 16:11, 1 Kings 15:25-27, 1 Kings 16:9, 2 Kings 9:22-24, 2 Kings 12:20, 2 Kings 21:23, Psalms 144:10

Reciprocal: 2 Kings 9:32 - eunuchs Esther 2:19 - sat in the king's gate Esther 3:2 - the king's servants Esther 7:9 - who had spoken Daniel 2:49 - sat

Cross-References

Genesis 15:12
And whe the sunne was downe, there fell a deepe sleepe vpon Abram: and lo, an horrour of great darknesse fell vpon hym.

1 Samuel 26:12
And so Dauid toke the speare and the cruse of water from Sauls head, and they gat them away, and no man sawe it, nor marked it, neither awaked: For they were all asleepe, because the Lorde had sent a dead sleepe vpon the.

Job 4:13
In the thoughtes and visions of the night when sleepe commeth on men,

Job 33:15
In dreames and visions of the night, when slumbring commeth vpon men that they fall asleepe in their beddes,

Proverbs 19:15
Slouthfulnesse bryngeth sleepe, and a soule accustomed with craft, shall suffer hunger.

Daniel 8:18
Now as he was speaking vnto me, I fell in a slumber vpon my face to the grounde: but he touched me, and set me vp in my place.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate,.... Being, as before observed, an officer at court:

two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those that kept the door; of the inner court, as Aben Ezra, of the doors of his bedchamber; perhaps they were the chief of his bodyguards, as the Septuagint version; in later times, such officers were about the chambers of great personages as their guards a:

these were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the King Ahasuerus; to poison him, as Jarchi and both the Targums; however, to take away his life by some means or another. Gorionides b says their design was, while the king was asleep, to cut off his head, and carry it to the king of Greece; there being at that time great wars between the kingdom of Greece and the kingdom of Persia, which exactly agrees with the times of Xerxes, and with this part of his reign, about the seventh year of it, what was the occasion of this wrath is not said, it is thought to be either the divorce of Vashti, whose creatures they were, or the marriage of Esther, and particularly the promotion of Mordecai, fearing they should be turned out of their places; so the former Targum.

a Vid. Pignorium de Servis, p. 408, &c. & Popma de Servis, p. 33. & Alstorph. de Lectis Vet. c. 12. b Hist. Heb. l. 2. c. 1. p. 72.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Conspiracies inside the palace were ordinary occurrences in Persia. Xerxes was ultimately murdered by Artabanus, the captain of the guard, and Aspamitras, a chamberlain and eunuch.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Esther 2:21. Mordecai sat in the kings gate — Mordecai might have been one of the officers of the king, as the gate was the place where such usually attended to await the king's call. It is not likely that he was the porter; had he been only such, Haman could have removed him at once.

Two of the king's chamberlains — Eunuchs. Why they conspired against the life of the king, we are not informed. The Targum says that they found out that Esther had intended to use her influence with the king to get them removed from their office, and Mordecai put in their place; therefore they determined to poison Esther, and slay the king in his bedchamber. It is very likely that they were creatures of Haman, who probably affected the kingdom, and perhaps were employed by him to remove the king, and so make his way open to the throne.