⁴⁰ You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.^[a](A) Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

³ Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus,^(A) famous among the Jews, and highly popular with many of his relatives.^(B) He continued to seek good for his people and to speak for the welfare of all his descendants.^(C)