Discovery BoxEsther 1:16 
Context1:16 Memucan then replied to the king and the officials, “The wrong of Queen Vashti is not against the king alone, but against all the officials and all the people who are throughout all the provinces of King Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:21
Context2:21 In those days while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan 1 and Teresh, 2 two of the king’s eunuchs who protected the entrance, 3 became angry and plotted to assassinate 4 King Ahasuerus.
Esther 6:6
Context6:6 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honor?” Haman thought to himself, 5 “Who is it that the king would want to honor more than me?”
1 tn This individual is referred to as “Bigthana,” a variant spelling of the name, in Esth 6:2.
2 tc The LXX does not include the names “Bigthan and Teresh” here.
3 tn Heb “guarders of the threshold”; NIV “who guarded the doorway.”
4 tn Heb “sought to send a hand against”; CEV “decided to kill.”
5 tn Heb “said in his heart” (so ASV); NASB, NRSV “said to himself.”
