23  And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the ^abook of the chronicles before the king.

  2  And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the ^bchronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?