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1In the second year of the reign of King Xerxes the Great, on the first day of the new year, Mordecai son of Jair, son of Shimei, son of Kish, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream.[#A:1a The portions designated as chapters A, B, C, D, E, and F are not included in the Hebrew text of Esther. They are here translated from the Greek version.; #A:1b Greek Ahasuerus, another name for Xerxes; also throughout the book of Esther.; #A:1c Greek On the first day of the month of Nisan. A number of dates in the book of Esther can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This dream occurred on March 26, 484 b.c.]
2He was a Jew living in the city of Susa, and he was an important man who worked in the king’s palace.
3He was a descendant of the captives whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken from Jerusalem when he took King Jehoiachin of Judea, captive.[#A:3a Greek He was one.; #A:3b Greek Jeconiah, a variant name for Jehoiachin.]
4This was Mordecai’s dream: There was clamor and confusion, thunder and earthquakes, and tumult upon the earth!
5Two great dragons came forward, ready to fight one another.
6At their terrible roar, every nation prepared for war, to fight against the righteous nation.
7It was a day of darkness and gloom, of troubles and distress, of suffering and great confusion upon the earth.
8The entire righteous nation was distraught; the people feared impending evil and prepared for death.
9But then the people cried to God, and a great overflowing river burst forth from a tiny spring.
10Light from the rising sun burst forth, and the humble were exalted and destroyed the nobles.
11When he woke up from this dream that revealed what God was going to do, Mordecai began thinking about what it might mean. He kept turning it over in his mind, anxious to understand every detail of the dream.
12One time Mordecai was resting in the king’s courtyard with Bigthana and Teresh, the king’s eunuchs who were guards of the courtyard.[#A:12 Greek Gabatha and Tharra; compare 2:21 and 6:2.]
13He overheard them discussing a conspiracy, so he investigated their plans and discovered that they were about to kill King Xerxes. So Mordecai warned the king about the plot.
14The king had the two men interrogated, and after they confessed, he had them executed.
15The king made an official record of what had happened, and Mordecai also wrote down the events.
16The king ordered Mordecai to serve in the palace and gave him a reward.
17But Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite, a man highly regarded by the king, sought to harm Mordecai and his people because of what had happened to the king’s two eunuchs.[#A:17 Greek a Bougean.]