1. Sometime later, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, Hammedatha the Agagite’s son, by promoting him above all the officials who worked with him.
2. All the royal workers at the King’s Gate would kneel and bow facedown to Haman because the king had so ordered. But Mordecai didn’t kneel or bow down.
3. So the royal workers at the King’s Gate said to Mordecai, "Why don’t you obey the king’s order?"