1;  Ahasuerus, reading in the chronicles of the good service
     done by Mordecai, takes care for his reward.
  4;  Haman, coming to sue that Mordecai might be hanged, gives
     counsel that he might do him honour.
 12;  Complaining of this, his friends tell him of his final
     destiny.

 * that night.
  5:8  Ge 22:14  1Sa 23:26,27  Isa 41:17  Ro 11:33 
 * could not the king sleep.  Heb. the king's sleep fled away.
  Da 2:1  6:18 
 * the book of records.
   As chronicles were composed among the Persians, a more
   instructive and interesting work could not be brought before
   the king; because they were all written in verse, and were
   generally the work of the most eminent poets of the empire.

  2:23  Mal 3:16