1 Mordecai’s Greatness Then King Ahasuerus set forced labor upon the land and the coastlands of the sea.
2 And the entire work of his authority and his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whom the king had madesogreat, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
3 For Mordecai the Jew was secondonlyto King Ahasuerus and was great among the Jews and pleasing to his manyfellowbrothers, one who sought the good of his people and one who spoke for the peace of all his seed.