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1 (11:2) In the second yere of the reigne of great Artaxerxes in the first day of the moneth Nisan, Mardocheus the sonne of Iarus, the sonne of Semei, thesonne of Cis of the tribe of Beniamin had a dreame, (11:3) A Iewe dwelling in the citie of Susis, a noble man, that bare office in the Kings court. (11:4) Hee was also one of the captiuitie which Nabuchodonosor the King of Babylon brought from Ierusalem with Iechonias. (11:5) And this was his dreame, Beholde a noyse of a tempest with thunders, and earthquakes, and vproare in the land. (11:6) Beholde two great dragons came foorth ready to fight one against another. (11:7) Their cry was great, whereby all the heathen were ready to fight against the righteous people. (11:8) And the same day was full of darkenes and obscuritie, and trouble, and anguish: yea, aduersitie, and great affliction was vpon the earth. (11:9) For then ye righteous fearing their afflictions, were amased, & being ready to die, cried vnto God. (11:10) And while they were crying, ye litle well grew into a great riuer, and flowed ouer with great waters. (11:11) The light and the sunne rose vp, and the lowly were exalted, and deuoured the glorious. (11:12) Nowe when Mardocheus had seene this dreame, hee awoke and rose vp and thought in his heart vntill the night, what God would doe, and so he desired to knowe all the matter. (12:1) At the same time dwelt Mardocheus in the kings court with Bagathas, and Thara, the Kings eunuches and keepers of the palace. (12:2) But when hee heard their purpose, and their imaginations, he perceiued that they went about to laye their handes vpon the King Artaxerxes, and so he certified the King thereof. (12:3) Then caused the King to examine the two eunuches with torments, and when they had confessed it, they were put to death. (12:4) This the King caused to be put in the Chronicles. Mardocheus also wrote the same thing. (12:5) So the King commaunded that Mardocheus shoulde remaine in the court, and for the aduertisement, he gaue him a reward. (12:6) But Aman the sonne of Amadathus the Agagite, which was in great honour and reputation with the King, went about to hurt Mardocheus and his people, because of the two eunuches of the King that were put to death. In the dayes of Ahashuerosh (this is Ahashuerosh that reigned, from India euen vnto Ethiopia, ouer an hundreth, and seuen and twentie prouinces) 2 In those dayes when the King Ahashuerosh sate on his throne, which was in the palace of Shushan, Esther 1:1-2, Geneva Bible of 1587. Public domain.
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