Esther 3:3

New Century Version

Then the royal officers at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why don’t you obey the king’s command?”

Cross References

Esther 2:19

Now Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate when the girls were gathered the second time.

Esther 3:2

All the royal officers at the king’s gate would bow down and kneel before Haman, as the king had ordered. But Mordecai would not bow down or show him honor.

Esther 3:4

And they said this to him every day. When he did not listen to them, they told Haman about it. They wanted to see if Haman would accept Mordecai’s behavior because Mordecai had told them he was Jewish.

Exodus 1:17

But the nurses feared God, so they did not do as the king told them; they let all the boy babies live.