Matthew Poole and continuators on Esther 2:21

21 In those days (while Mordecai sat in the kings gate) two of the kings chamberlains, Bigthan and Teresh, of those which kept the † door , were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.

Either 1. Of the Kings Chamber. Or, 2. Of his Court; and so they [illegible: 1+ letters]ate in the gate, as Mordecai did, who by that means contracting some familiar acquaintance with them, might make some discovery of their minds and design.

i. e. Violent hand; to kill him as this phrase is used, ch. 3. 6. and elsewhere.

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