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The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, Volume 4: 1 & 2 Kings, 1 & 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Gold Medallion Award-winning Expositor’s Bible Commentary is a major contribution to the study and understanding of the Scriptures. Providing pastors and Bible students with a comprehensive and scholarly tool for the exposition of the Scriptures and the teaching and proclamation of their message, this 12-volume reference work has become a staple of seminary and college libraries and pastors’...

refusal: (1) it would have been an act of idolatry; (2) he refused to bow before the hereditary enemy of Israel. The officials informed Haman of Mordecai’s insolence to see whether it would be “tolerated” (Heb., “to see whether the words of Mordecai would stand”). It is unlikely that Mordecai’s refusal to bow to Haman was caused by a claim to divine honor by Shaman (a view followed by Josephus, Keil et al.). There are many examples of God’s people prostrating themselves before a king or other superiors
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