The Rest of Esther 12

How to read these pages: the text itself comes first, verse by verse, in the volume's own translation. Beneath each verse stands its Meaning — a rendering of what the passage's terms name in the inner life, drawn from the correspondences the text itself uses. The text is never altered; the meaning is offered, not imposed.

King James Version

1And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.

And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king — attendants of the ruling state — and keepers of the palace.

2And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.

And he heard their devices — the schemes of the sense-mind — and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king, the ruling state; and so he certified the king of them.

3Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.

Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after they had confessed it, they were strangled: the plotting state was cut off at its breath.

4And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.

And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote of them: the deed was fixed in the record of the state.

5So the king commanded Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.

So the king commanded Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.

6Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.

Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people, because of the two eunuchs of the king: the honoured adversary-state turned its grievance against the whole people.

Companion volume to The Why Bible — the King James Apocrypha, rendered in its spiritual meanings. First final edition, October 2026.