But Mordecai served in the palace.

And two of the king's eunuchs, the chiefs of the bodyguard, were grieved, because Mordecai was promoted; and they sought to kill King Artaxerxes.

And he mounted him on the second of his chariots, and a herald made proclamation before him; and he set him over all the land of Egypt.

that at the name of Jesus every knee may bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth,

And after this King Artaxerxes highly honored Haman, [son] of Hammedatha, the Bugaean, and exalted him, and set his seat above all his friends.

And when Haman understood that Mordecai did not bow down to him, he was greatly enraged,

And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalek from under heaven.

For with a secret hand the Lord wages war upon Amalek to all generations.

And it shall come to pass whenever the Lord your God shall have given you rest from all your enemies round about you, in the land which the Lord your God gives you to inherit, you shall blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven, and shall not forget [to do it].

And now go, and you shall strike Amalek and Hierim and all that belongs to him, and you shall not save anything of his alive, but you shall utterly destroy him. And you shall devote him and all his [to destruction], and you shall spare nothing belonging to him; and you shall slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, calf and sheep, camel and donkey.

In his sight an evil worker is set at nought, but he honors them that fear the Lord. He swears to his neighbor, and disappoints [him] not.