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Esther 2:21

In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.

Esther 2:21 BSB
  1. a Bigthan is a variant of Bigthana; see Esther 6:2.

Esther 2:21 has 9 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Esther 6:2 (9 votes) and 1 Kings 16:9 (3 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 5 other books, from 2 Samuel 4 to Daniel 2.

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Which verses does Esther 2:21 point to?

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  1. Esther 6:29 votes

    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.

  2. 1 Kings 16:93 votes

    However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.

  3. 2 Kings 12:203 votes

    And the servants of Joash rose up and formed a conspiracy and killed him at Beth-millo, on the road down to Silla.

  4. 2 Kings 21:233 votes

    Then the servants of Amon conspired against him and killed the king in his palace.

  5. 2 Samuel 4:5–62 votes

    Now Rechab and Baanah, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, set out and arrived at the house of Ish-bosheth in the heat of the day, while the king was taking his midday nap. They entered the interior of the house as if to get some wheat, and they stabbed him in the stomach. Then Rechab and his brother Baanah slipped away.

  6. 2 Samuel 16:112 votes

    Then David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, my own son, my own flesh and blood, seeks my life. How much more, then, this Benjamite! Leave him alone and let him curse me, for the LORD has told him so.

  7. 1 Kings 15:25–272 votes

    In the second year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Nadab son of Jeroboam became king of Israel, and he reigned two years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD and walked in the way of his father and in his sin, which he had caused Israel to commit. …

  8. 2 Kings 9:22–242 votes

    When Joram saw Jehu, he asked, “Have you come in peace, Jehu?” “How can there be peace,” he replied, “as long as the idolatry and witchcraft of your mother Jezebel abound?” Joram turned around and fled, calling out to Ahaziah, “Treachery, Ahaziah!” …

  9. Psalm 144:102 votes

    to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

Which verses point to Esther 2:21?

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