¹⁰ Then ^(A)Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite ^[a]official heard about it, and it was a very great evil to them that someone had come to seek the good of the sons of Israel.

³ For Mordecai the Jew was ^(A)second only to King Ahasuerus and was great among the Jews and pleasing to his many fellow brothers, ^(B)one who sought the good of his people and one who spoke for the peace of all his seed.