Now when the virgins were gathered together the second time, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate. Esther had not made known her kindred or her people, as Mordecai had commanded her, for Esther obeyed Mordecai just as when she was brought up by him. In those days, as Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, became angry and sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. And this came to the knowledge of Mordecai, and he told it to Queen Esther, and Esther told the king in the name of Mordecai. When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows. And it was recorded in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Comment: The entrance gate to the cities was in those days where those who were our equivalent of magistrates sat and gave judgements. Was Mordecai one of those dispensing judgements or just sitting ‘in the gallery’? At any rate he heard two men, I suspect not expecting any one to be hearing them, planning to murder the king. He tells Esther, who tells the king, who puts his ‘private detectives’ to check the truth of the report. The gallows are used to deal with the two who very unwisely let Mordecai overhear them. Mordecai isn’t recorded as being thanked but does get his name in the books of what was much like the king’s personal diary.
Prayer: Thank You that You are in control of what appear to be the ‘nothing much. small events’ of our lives.
As I read it! 