Esther 2:19
When [the] virgins were gathered a second time, Mordecai [was] sitting at the gate of the king.
Esther 2:21
In those days Mordecai [was] sitting at the gate of the king. Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, became angry and they conspired {to assassinate} King Ahasuerus.
Esther 2:3-4
Let the king appoint chief officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, and let them gather every attractive young virgin to the {harem} in the citadel of Susa {under the care of} Hegai, the king's eunuch, who is in charge of the women; and let him give [them] their beauty treatment.
Esther 5:13
But all this {fails to satisfy me} {when} I see Mordecai the Jew setting at the gate of the king."
Esther 3:2-3
And all of the king's servants who [were] at the gate of the king [were] kneeling and bowing down to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him, but Mordecai did not kneel and bow down.