Esther 3:8; Esther 5:13; Esther 7:4

Esther 3:8

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.

Esther 5:13

13 "Yet all of this does not satisfy me every time I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king's gate."

Esther 7:4

4 for we have been sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be killed and to be annihilated. Now if we had only been sold as slaves , men and women, I would have remained silent, for the trouble would not be commensurate with the annoyance to the king."