Esther 10:2
And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia? And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
The record of the acts of Persian power and of Mordecai's advancement under the king was preserved in the official chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia. That written chronicle forms part of the historical account of the Jews in captivity under Persian rule. As such it stands as a historical record upholding the reliability of the Bible's account of that period. The captivity it documents, in which many Jews were taken captive by the Persians, confirms the prediction that the Jewish people would be scattered among foreign kingdoms.