And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
Satan stirred Haman to kill Mordecai; God stirred the king to honor him. The king's word stands above Haman's, and God's counsel stands above them both. Even a sleepless night becomes the instrument of His purpose.
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Commenting on Esther 6:1-3
And it was found written,.... Upon reading, and in which there was also a peculiar hand of Providence, directing to the reading of that part of them in which the affair of Mordecai was registered: and if what the latter Targum says is true, it was the more remarkable, that when Shimshai the scribe, who was ordered to bring the book and read, and who...
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made. (g) Meaning, the highest that could be found.
Commenting on Esther 6:1-2