4. Day after day they tried to speak to him, but he didn’t listen to them. So they let Haman know that Mordecai was disregarding the king’s order. Earlier Mordecai had explained to them that he was a Jew.
5. When Haman himself became aware that Mordecai didn’t kneel or bow down to him, he became very angry.
6. So he planned to wipe out all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Artaxerxes.