Haman convinced King Xerxes to kill all Jews as they stood in opposition to the king's rule. When Haman found out about this and that Mordecai was a Jew, Haman became enraged with anger and wanted to kill not only just Mordecai but all of the Jewish nation. Mordecai then refused to bow down the Haman, the highest of all nobles.
Mordecai told Queen Esther of the plan and Esther told the king, giving credit to Mordecai for overhearing the plan. One night when Mordecai was sitting by the king's gate, he overheard two guards named Bigthana and Teresh conspiring to assassinate King Xerxes. Esther continued to hide her Jewish background as Mordecai had instructed her to do because he knew it would be dangerous for her if anyone found out she was a Jew. The Story of Esther in the Bible The story of Esther opens with a lavish banquet at the palace of King Ahasuerus, (also known as King Xerxes. King Ahasuerus held a great banquet for his new queen, Esther. The author of Esther patterned much of his material on the events of the Joseph story (see notes on 2:3-4,9,21-23 3:4 4:14 6:1,8,14 8:6), in which the remnant motif is also central to the narrative (see Ge 45:7 and note). When it was Esther's turn to go before the king, he immediately found her the most attractive and beautiful of all women and placed the royal crown on her head. Esther was careful however to not tell anyone her nationality, as Mordecai had warned her not to. Esther's beauty won her Hegai's favor and she was given special attention. We are therefore reluctant to see Jonah as the scoundrel he is: willful, arrogant, rebellious, and (worse yet) self-righteous. Simply put, pious bias is the presumption that all the people we find in the Bible were pious. A man named Hegai was put in charge of preparing the women for meeting the king. Many Christians suffer from what I have come to call a pious bias. Esther's cousin Mordecai had taken Esther in and raised her as his own after Esther's parents had died. A Jewish woman named Esther was taken with other young women to a citadel.
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