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fell into a great passion of rage; and, hearing that he was a Jew, he would not be content with laying hands on Mardochaeus only; the whole race, throughout all Assuerus’ dominions, should be brought to ruin for it. (Esther 3, 6)
When the news reached Mardochaeus, he tore his garments about him; put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on his head; and as he went through the open square in the heart of the city, loud lament betrayed the bitterness of his grief. (Esther 4, 1)
Esther heard, from her maidservants and from the chamberlains, what Mardochaeus did; she was bewildered at the news, and sent out clothes for him to wear instead of his sackcloth, but he would have none of it. (Esther 4, 4)
Then she sent for Athach, the chamberlain whom the king had deputed for her needs, bidding him go and ask Mardochaeus what his doings meant. (Esther 4, 5)
Mardochaeus gave him a copy, too, of the edict which had been posted in Susan, bidding him shew it to the queen; go she must into the king’s presence, and plead there the cause of her people.✻ (Esther 4, 8)
Mardochaeus answered, Do not flatter thyself that a royal court will shelter thee in the general massacre of thy countrymen. (Esther 4, 13)
And Mardochaeus went away, to do as Esther had bidden him. (Esther 4, 17)
A proud man was Aman that day, and he went home treading on air. But Mardochaeus still sat at the palace door; rise up he would not, nor stir from his post. And Aman, seeing it, fell into a rage. (Esther 5, 9)
He gave no mark of it then, but when he reached home he called all his friends about him, and his wife Zares among them, (Esther 5, 10)
All this is mine, he said, and all this is nothing to me, while I yet see Mardochaeus sitting there at the palace gate. (Esther 5, 13)
But they had a remedy for this, his wife Zares and those friends of his. Have a gallows made, fifty cubits high, so that tomorrow thou canst bid the king have Mardochaeus hanged on it. Then thou mayst go light-hearted enough, to feast with the king. This counsel Aman liked well, and he gave his men orders to have a high gallows in readiness. (Esther 5, 14)
In the reading of them, they came upon the story of the plot made by two chamberlains, Bagathan and Thares, to murder the king, and how Mardochaeus gave information of it. (Esther 6, 2)
