{"query": "Mordecai at the Gate", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_n_dfe230563b45", "title": "Mordecai at the Gate", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sits at the gate; uncovers the assassination plot; refuses to bow to Haman; condemned to the gallows Haman built; on a sleepless night the king reads the chronicles and Mordecai is honored; eventually"}, {"id": "card_src_comm_esther_6_12", "title": "Matthew Henry on Esther 6:12", "shelf": "commentary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "On Esther 6:12 — We may here observe,\nI. How little Mordecai was puffed up with his advancement. he came again to the king's gate (Est 6:12); he returned to his place and the duty of it immediately, a"}, {"id": "card_n_aefd11433a6f", "title": "Easton: Mordecai", "shelf": "dictionary", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The son of Jair, of the tribe of Benjamin. 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