'Thing' in the Bible

and let the maiden who pleases the king be queen instead of Vashti." The thing pleased the king, and he did so.

This thing became known to Mordecai, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in Mordecai's name.

She said, "If it pleases the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing seem right to the king, and I am pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews who are in all the king's provinces.