Esther 3:4
“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.”
KJV
Read in Esther 3Meaning
The verse explicitly links Mordecai's refusal with his identity as a Jew. What had been a court dispute is now given an ethnic and religious dimension that Haman will exploit.