“On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Esther 6 contains 14 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.