Esther 3:4-6

4Now it was when they had spoken daily to him and he would not listen to them, that they told Haman to see whether Mordecai’s reason would 1stand; for he had told them that he was a Jew. 5When Haman saw that 2Mordecai neither bowed down nor paid 3homage to him, Haman was filled with rage. 6But he 4considered it beneath his dignity to 5kill Mordecai alone, for they had told him who the people of Mordecai were; so Haman 6sought to annihilate all the Jews, the people of Mordecai, who were found throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus.