Esther 2:21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

Two of the king's chamberlains “These were two great men, who perhaps kept the door of the king's bed-chamber, and being either incensed at the divorce of Vashti, whose creatures they were, or at the advancement of Esther, who they thought would in all probability raise her kinsman Mordecai above them, took disgust thereat, and so resolved to avenge themselves on the king.” Dodd. See Prideaux, and Esther 6:2-3.

Esther 2:21

21 In those days, while Mordecai sat in the king's gate, two of the king's chamberlains, Bigthane and Teresh, of those which kept the door, were wroth, and sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.