This might be the shortest passage of Scripture that we break down into one single lesson. The author cleverly almost treats these 3 verses as a footnote, almost a minor detail that anyone would overlook. The truth is, if you were a first time reader of the book of Esther without any knowledge of what is coming in the following chapters these 3 verses would almost come across as unimportant. Two men, named Bigthan and Teresh, are angry with the king. They aren’t just any regular people, they are the king’s chamberlains. A chamberlain was someone who was responsible, or the manager, of something under the king’s purview. Chamberlains were people that the king really should be able to trust. But for one reason or another, these two men were plotting to kill King Xerxes.
As luck would have it (the more we read the book of Esther, the more we will realize that luck had nothing to do with it, but the providential hand of God). Mordecai overheard this plot against the king. Mordecai then told Esther who then told the king. Esther name dropped Mordecai in giving him the credit for this discovery. Bigthan and Teresh were executed and the events (Mordecai’s rescue and the execution) were then documented in the king’s chronicles (foreshadowing).
Although there isn’t much to say about this passage of Scripture, it is really neat to see the Lord working in the shadows on behalf of Esther, Mordecai, and all of the Jewish people in Persia even before Haman’s threat surfaces. God is all-knowing, he knew what was going to come in the future before it ever came and God was prepared for it. Once again, I am comforted and amazed by the fact that nothing takes God by surprise. That is something we can remember in our day to day lives.