Esther 3:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Whether Mordecai's matters would stand, i.e. whether he would persist in his refusal, and what the event of it would be. He had told them that he was a Jew; and therefore did not deny this reverence to Haman out of pride, or any personal grudge against him, much less out of a rebellious mind and contempt of the king's authority and command; but merely out of conscience, because he was a Jew, who was obliged to give this honour to none but to God only.

Esther 3:4

4 Now it came to pass, when they spake daily unto him, and he hearkened not unto them, that they told Haman, to see whether Mordecai's matters would stand: for he had told them that he was a Jew.