Esther 3:8
King James VersionSource notes
“And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it not for the king’s profit to suffer them.”
Context
5And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
6And 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 throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
7In the first month, that the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, the twelfth that the month Adar.
8And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it not for the king’s profit to suffer them.
9If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring into the king’s treasuries.
10And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
11And the king said unto Haman, The silver given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.