Additions to Esther 3:5

5 Haman was furious when he realized that Mordecai was not going to bow to him,

Additions to Esther 3:5 In-Context

3 The other officials in the royal service asked him why he was disobeying the king's command.

4 Day after day they urged him to give in, but he would not listen to them. "I am a Jew," he explained, "and I cannot bow to Haman." So they told Haman how Mordecai was defying the king's orders.

5 Haman was furious when he realized that Mordecai was not going to bow to him,

6 and so he made plans to kill every Jew in the whole Persian Empire.

7 In the twelfth year of King Xerxes' reign, Haman ordered the lots to be cast to find out the right day and month to destroy the Jews, all in a single day. The fourteenth day of the month of Adar was the date chosen.