And all the king’s servants who were in the king’s gate were kneeling and bowing down to Haman, for the king had so commanded for him. But Mordecai did not bow down and did not kneel.
And it happened, when they spoke day by day to him, and he did not listen to them, they told Haman, to see if Mordecai’s matters would stand. For he had told them that he was a Jew.