^40 (A)You shall be over my house, and according to your ^[a]command all my people shall ^[b]do homage; only in the throne I will be greater than you.”

³ For Mordecai the Jew was ^(A)second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and in favor with his many kinsmen, ^(B)one who sought the good of his people and one who spoke for the welfare of his whole nation.