² Then the king’s personal attendants proposed, “Let a search be made for beautiful young virgins for the king.

² So his attendants said to him, “Let us look for a young virgin to serve the king and take care of him. She can lie beside him so that our lord the king may keep warm.”

¹⁴ While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet^(A) Esther had prepared.

¹⁴ and were closest to the king—Karshena, Shethar, Admatha, Tarshish, Meres, Marsena and Memukan, the seven nobles^(A) of Persia and Media who had special access to the king and were highest in the kingdom.

¹⁰ On the seventh day, when King Xerxes was in high spirits^(A) from wine,^(B) he commanded the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona,^(C) Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar and Karkas—

¹⁴ When Abram came to Egypt, the Egyptians saw that Sarai was a very beautiful woman.^(A)