Esther 3:6
“And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.”
KJV
Read in Esther 3Meaning
The conflict escalates from personal retaliation to collective persecution. Haman turns one man's refusal into a pretext for eliminating an entire people, exposing the genocidal logic that drives the rest of the chapter.