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23 The king then had the matter investigated and, finding it to be so, had the two conspirators[a] hanged on a gallows.[b] It was then recorded in the daily chronicles in the king’s presence.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 2:23 tn Heb “they both were hanged.” The referent (the two eunuchs who conspired against the king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Esther 2:23 tn Or “on a pole”; KJV, ASV “on a tree.”

23 And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled(A) on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals(B) in the presence of the king.(C)

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