²³ When the affair was investigated and found to be so, the men were both hanged on the gallows.^[a] And it was recorded in ^(A)the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.

² And all the acts of his power and might, and the full account of the high honor of Mordecai, ^(A)to which the king advanced him, are they not written in ^(B)the Book of the Chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?