'Plot' in the Bible

But the plot became known to Mordecai and he told Queen Esther, and Esther informed the king in Mordecai’s name.

Now when the plot was investigated and found to be so, they were both hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the Book of the Chronicles in the king’s presence.

Then Esther spoke again to the king, fell at his feet, wept and implored him to avert the evil scheme of Haman the Agagite and his plot which he had devised against the Jews.