以斯帖记 3:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

於是在朝門的臣僕問末底改：“你為甚麼違背王的命令呢？”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
在 朝 门 的 臣 仆 问 末 底 改 说 ： 「 你 为 何 违 背 王 的 命 令 呢 ？ 」

Contextual Overview

¹ After these things happened, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha the Agagite. He gave him a new rank that was higher than all the important men. ² All the royal officers at the king's gate would bow down and kneel before Haman, as the king had ordered. But Mordecai would not bow down or show him honor. ³ Then the royal officers at the king's gate asked Mordecai, "Why don't you obey the king's command?" ⁴ And they said this to him every day. When he did not listen to them, they told Haman about it. They wanted to see if Haman would accept Mordecai's behavior because Mordecai had told them he was Jewish. ⁵ When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down to him or honor him, he became very angry. ⁶ He thought of himself as too important to try to kill only Mordecai. He had been told who the people of Mordecai were, so he looked for a way to destroy all of Mordecai's people, the Jews, in all of Xerxes' kingdom.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Why: Esther 3:2, Exodus 1:17, Matthew 15:2, Matthew 15:3

Reciprocal: Esther 2:19 - sat in the king's gate Esther 6:6 - To whom

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "You gave this woman to me and she gave me fruit from the tree, so I ate it."

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."

Genesis 3:17
Then God said to the man, "You listened to what your wife said, and you ate fruit from the tree from which I commanded you not to eat. "So I will put a curse on the ground, and you will have to work very hard for your food. In pain you will eat its food all the days of your life.

Genesis 20:6
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, "Yes, I know you did not realize what you were doing. So I did not allow you to sin against me and touch her.

1 Chronicles 16:22
He said, "Don't touch my chosen people, and don't harm my prophets."

Job 1:11
But reach out your hand and destroy everything he has, and he will curse you to your face."

Job 2:5
But reach out your hand and destroy his flesh and bones, and he will curse you to your face."

Job 19:21
Pity me, my friends, pity me, because the hand of God has hit me.

1 Corinthians 7:1
Now I will discuss the things you wrote me about. It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then the king's servants, which were in the king's gate,.... Observing the behaviour of Mordecai towards Haman from time to time:

said unto Mordecai, why transgressest thou the king's commandment? of giving reverence to Haman, which they knew he could not be ignorant of.