Read Esther 6.1-14. In 6.1-14: Royal insomnia benefits Mordecai. In a comic scene, the king passes a sleepless night listening to royal annals. In keeping with the theology of the book, "it just happened" to be the same night Haman "happens" to be in the court; and Haman's desire for royal treatment "happen" to be given to the very man he wished to hang. In verse 10: The Jew Mordecai: The king makes no connection between Mordecai's ethnicity and the people he had condemned to death in ch. 3. In verse 13: If Mordecai ... is of the Jewish people: Since Haman had already revealed this in 5.13, the statement is likely intended as a preview of what is to come. Comments or Questions..
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