Esther 6:1-2

BBE⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ That night the king was unable to get any sleep; and he sent for the books of the records; and while some one was reading them to the king, ² It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.

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Esther 6:1 Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.
Esther 6:4 Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives counsel that he might do him honour.
Esther 6:12 Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final destiny.

that night.
Esther 5:8; Genesis 22:14; 1 Samuel 23:26; 1 Samuel 23:27; Isaiah 41:17; Romans 11:33
could not the king sleep. Heb. the king's sleep fled away.
Daniel 2:1; Daniel 6:18
the book of records.As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more instructive and interesting work could not be brought before the king; because they were all written in verse, and were generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.
Esther 2:23; Malachi 3:16