( Esther 6:4-5) Haman in the courts of the king. What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this? Showing rare concern for a common subject, King Ahasuerus considered a reward for Mordecai.Ģ. Even as king Ahasuerus had a book of the records of the chronicles (literally a book of remembrance), so God also has a book of remembrance: Then those who feared the LORD spoke to one another, and the LORD listened and heard them so a book of remembrance was written before Him for those who fear the LORD and who meditate on His name.

The book could be opened to any page, but it was opened to the exact page telling the story of Mordecai and how he saved the King from assassination. The one commanded to bring the book could have brought any one book of the records of the chronicles, but he brought one particular book. King Ahasuerus cannot sleep, and he can choose 20 different diversions to fill his sleepless night – but he commands that a book be brought to him and read. And it was found written: This was a remarkable example of Providence in action. “Ahasuerus is master of one hundred and twenty and seven provinces, but not master of ten minutes’ sleep.” (Spurgeon)ī. He brought out a book and used it to fill the sleepless night, hoping that the reading will make him sleepy again. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles: King Ahasuerus did what many do when they cannot sleep.

Then the king said, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?” And the king’s servants who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”Ī. And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. So one was commanded to bring the book of the records of the chronicles and they were read before the king.

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