Esther 6:1-2

NHEB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. ² It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Achashyerosh.

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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