Mordecai

But all this gives me no satisfaction as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the king's gate.

And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

as Mordecai had charged her: for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him.

Mordecai left the king's presence wearing royal garments of blue and white, a large crown of gold and a purple robe of fine linen.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

But God wanted to use this unlikely incident to turn to Mordecai's remarkable advantage.

My Uncle Mordecai heard them and he told me to alert the king.

whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.

Mordecai and Esther urged the Jewish people never to forget the protection of God in delivering them from the plot Haman had engineered.

Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate, said unto Mordecai, Why transgressest thou the king's commandment?

He was surprised when the king told Haman to do all those good things to Mordecai the Jew.

And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

Mordecai was elevated to the position of Prime Minister.

Not only did Mordecai put on every sign of mourning, but wherever the decree was published, the Jews reacted with fasting and weeping.

And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters unto all the Jews that were in all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, both nigh and far,