Xerxes and the Assassination of Mordecai

The preferred method of execution was this public impaling or hanging maybe even with the beam of these people's own building to symbolize you are impaled upon. Xerxes definitely had reason to be concerned about assassination plots in fact it's an assassination plot that ends the reign of king Xerxes in august of 465 artybanis not the Artybanis who was the uncle of Xerxes. In a story that kind of echoes Gideon and putting out a fleece from the bible Xerxes has artybani dress up like him and sit there and see if he has the same vision and he does, they're like we're friends now we're gonna invade Greece together god wills