Whether Mordecai’s matters would stand - Rather, “whether Mordecai’s words would be accepted as valid” — whether, that is, his excuse, that …

Whether Mordecai’s matters would stand. —This should be understood as his words: whether his statement that he belonged t…

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Putting him in mind of his duty to obey the king's command, suggest…

Mordecai refused to reverence Haman. The religion of a Jew forbade him to give honors to any mortal man that smacked of idolatry, especially to suc…