1
AftertheseeventsKingAhasueruspromotedHaman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him and established his authorityover*all the princeswho were with him.
2
All the king'sservantswho were at the king'sgateboweddown and paidhomage to Haman; for so the king had commanded concerning him. But Mordecaineitherboweddownnorpaidhomage.
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Now it was when they had spokendaily to him and he would not listen to them, that they toldHaman to see whether Mordecai'sreason would stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew.
6
But he disdained* to layhands on Mordecaialone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; therefore Hamansought to destroyall the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were throughout the wholekingdom of Ahasuerus.