And albeit they spake daily unto him, yet he would not hear them: therefore they [a]told Haman, that they might see how Mordecai’s matters would stand: for he had told them, that he was a Jew.

And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not the knee unto him, nor did reverence unto him, then Haman was full of wrath.

Now he [b]thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: and because they had showed him the people of Mordecai, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

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Footnotes

  1. Esther 3:4 Thus we see that there is none so wicked, but they have their flatterers to accuse the godly.
  2. Esther 3:6 Hebrew, despised in his eyes.

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