Est 3:8, Dan 3:12, Act 5:29, 17:7 | 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.

a[Ezra 4:12, 13; Acts 16:20, 21]

b ch. 2:49

c[See ver. 1 above]

d[ch. 1:7]

e ch. 6:13

f[ch. 4:19, 20]

g ch. 16:4; Luke 2:1

hSee Luke 23:2

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.

Daniel 3:12

12 There are certain Jews whom you have ^bappointed over the affairs of ^cthe province of Babylon: ^dShadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. These men, O king, ^epay no attention to you; they do not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up.”

Acts 5:29

29 But Peter and the apostles answered, ^f“We must obey God rather than men.

Acts 17:7

7 and Jason has received them, and they are all acting against ^gthe decrees of Caesar, saying that there is ^hanother king, Jesus.”