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Esther 3 The plot against the Jews (Esther ch 3&4)
Even after I became Queen, Mordecai kept in touch with me.
I wasn’t able to see him after I became Queen
but his access to the court meant that he was able to get messages to me.
One day he managed to see me himself.
He had overheard two of the king’s eunuchs plotting to kill him
and he thought the king should know.
I passed on Mordecai’s information to the king and the men were hung.
The king wanted to know where I got the information from.
I had no option but to give him Mordecai’s name.
I’m glad I did because that helped to save us.
But I’m jumping ahead in the story.
Things began to go very badly wrong for Mordecai.
A man called Haman became second in command to the King himself.
I didn’t like the man.
He thought very highly of himself.
He demanded that everyone should bow down to him when they met him.
An order from the king, apparently.
Mordecai would not bow down.
Our laws say that we should not bow down to anyone except God himself.
You can imagine how much that upset Haman.
He was furious and plotted his revenge.
Continues…