The King Plans to Honor Mordecai

During that night [a]the king (A)could not sleep, so he gave an order to bring (B)the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 6:1 Lit the king’s sleep fled

Mordecai Honored

That night the king could not sleep;(A) so he ordered the book of the chronicles,(B) the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.

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18 Then the king went to his palace and spent the night (A)fasting, and no entertainment was brought before him; and his (B)sleep fled from him.

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18 Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating(A) and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.(B)

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