3
So the people at the king's court said to him, "Mordecai, why don't you obey the king's command?"
4
Day after day they tried to speak to him, but he didn't listen to them. So they let Haman know that Mordecai was disregarding the king's order. Earlier Mordecai had explained to them that he was a Jew.
5
When Haman himself became aware that Mordecai didn't kneel or bow down to him, he became very angry.
6
So he planned to wipe out all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.
7
He made a decision in the twelfth year of Artaxerxes' rule, and he threw lots to determine the day and month on which Mordecai's people would be destroyed in a single day. The lot fell on the fourteenth day of the twelfth month, that is, the month of Adar.