Esther 3:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

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.