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1-2-3Mordecai, a Jew who belonged to the tribe of Benjamin, was taken into exile, along with King Jehoiachin of Judah, when King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia captured Jerusalem. Mordecai was the son of Jair, a descendant of Kish and Shimei. He now lived in the Persian city of Susa, where he was an important official in the royal court of Xerxes the great king.[#2 K 24.10-16]
During the second year of Xerxes' reign, on the first day of the month of Nisan, Mordecai had a dream.
4He dreamed that there was great noise and confusion, loud thunder, and an earthquake, with terrible turmoil on the earth.
5Then two huge dragons appeared, ready to fight each other.
6They made a dreadful noise, and all the nations got ready to make war against God's nation of righteous people.
7For the world it was a day of darkness and gloom, trouble and distress, destruction and ruin.
8All of God's righteous people were troubled, in great fear of what was about to happen to them. They prepared for death,
9but they cried out to God for help. In the dream their prayer was answered by a great river which came flowing out of a small spring.
10The day dawned, the sun rose, and the humble people were made strong and destroyed their arrogant enemies.
11Mordecai woke up from this dream in which he saw what God planned to do. He thought about it all day and tried to understand what it meant.
12While Mordecai was resting in the courtyard of the palace, where two of the king's eunuchs, Gabatha and Tharra, were on guard,
13he overheard them plotting together. He listened carefully to what they were saying and learned that they were making plans to kill the king. So Mordecai went to King Xerxes and told him about the plot of the two eunuchs.
14The king had them questioned, and when they confessed, they were led away and executed.
15The king had an account of this written in the official records, and Mordecai also wrote an account of it.
16Then the king appointed Mordecai to a position at court and gave him many gifts as a reward for what he had done.
17But Haman son of Hammedatha, a Bougaean who was respected by the king, tried to cause trouble for Mordecai and his people the Jews, because Mordecai had been responsible for the death of the two eunuchs.