"Go, gather together all the Jews who are present in Shushan, and fast for me, and neither eat nor drink three days, night or day. I and my maidens will also fast the same way. Then I will go in to the king, which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish."

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.