21 In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, ^mBigthan and ⁿTeresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 22 And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, ^oand he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. 23 When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows.¹ And it was recorded in ^pthe book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.