'Sitting' in the Bible

Now when the young women were being gathered again, Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate.

In those days while Mordecai was sitting at the king's gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs who protected the entrance, became angry and plotted to assassinate King Ahasuerus.

It so happened that on the third day Esther put on her royal attire and stood in the inner court of the palace, opposite the king's quarters. The king was sitting on his royal throne in the palace, opposite the entrance.

Yet all of this fails to satisfy me so long as I have to see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."