What is the context?
Esther continues to conceal her identity as Mordecai instructed. Meanwhile, Mordecai learns that two guards are plotting against the king.
He tells Esther, and she reports it in his name. The matter is investigated and confirmed, the officials are executed, and Mordecai’s action enters the royal record.
The written record preserves a service that is not rewarded in this scene. Its later rediscovery will become a decisive part of the reversal in chapter 6.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley takes Mordecai’s place at the gate as an official role, though the passage does not give a formal appointment notice here. In the BSB’s sequence, Esther is the intermediary and the report is recorded before the later honor. The Greek prologue printed by the USCCB retells the plot with Mordecai reporting directly and receiving a reward immediately; those details belong to that version’s sequence.
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