When Haman sees that Mordecai does not bow or do him obeisance, Haman is filled with wrath, yet rather than strike Mordecai alone, he seeks to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus because Mordecai is a Jew. This disproportionate escalation of Haman's response—from personal anger at Mordecai to a genocidal plot against an entire people—reveals the depth of Haman's rage and introduces an explicitly antisemitic dimension to the conflict. From a theological perspective, the verse demonstrates how prejudice can weaponize power and how personal animosity can become the occasion for collective violence, yet it also signals that the narrative is moving from a personal conflict to a crisis that will threaten the very existence of God's covenant people in diaspora.

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