²³ And when the report was investigated and found to be true, the two officials were impaled^(A) on poles. All this was recorded in the book of the annals^(B) in the presence of the king.^(C)

² And all his acts of power and might, together with a full account of the greatness of Mordecai,^(A) whom the king had promoted,^(B) are they not written in the book of the annals^(C) of the kings of Media and Persia?

¹⁸ Then the king returned to his palace and spent the night without eating^(A) and without any entertainment being brought to him. And he could not sleep.^(B)