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…

Now it came to pass, when they spoke daily to him
Putting him in mind of his duty to obey the king's command, sugges…

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…