Est 3:8, 5:13 | ESV | STEP | Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus , There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom . Their laws are different from those of every other people , and they do not keep the king’s laws , so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

b[See ver. 9 above]

Esther 3:8

8 Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, “There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom. ^aTheir laws are different from those of every other people, and they do not keep the king’s laws, so that it is not to the king’s profit to tolerate them.

Esther 5:13

13 Yet all this is worth nothing to me, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting ^bat the king’s gate.”