Esther 3:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the king’s command?”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Then the king's servants who were at the king's gate said to Mordecai, Why do you transgress the king's command?

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Then the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king’s commandment?

Common English Bible

³ So the royal workers at the King’s Gate said to Mordecai, “Why don’t you obey the king’s order?”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And so, in the third year of his reign, he made a great feast for all the leaders and his servants, for the most powerful among the Persians and the distinguished among the Medes, and for the rulers of the provinces before him,

English Standard Version 2016

³ Then the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate said to Mordecai, “Why do you transgress the king’s command?”

Esther 3:3 Krydshenvisninger

Esther 2:19

When the virgins were being gathered together, Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate.

Esther 3:2

And all the king’s servants who were at the king’s gate bowed down and did obeisance to Haman, for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai did not bow down or do obeisance.

Esther 3:4

When they spoke to him day after day and he would not listen to them, they told Haman, in order to see whether Mordecai’s words would stand, for he had told them that he was a Jew.

Exodus 1:17

But the midwives feared God; they did not do as the king of Egypt commanded them, but they let the boys live.