And Haman, still enjoying the king's favor to the full, said unto King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom, skillfully insinuating that the Jews were aliens in manners and habits and enemies to the rest of his subjects; and their laws are diverse from all people, the implication being that they were at variance with the laws of the realm, that the Jews were no good citizens; neither keep they the king's laws, for Haman falsely generalized from the one instance in which his dignity was offended; therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them, to leave them in peace, unmolested, Haman's suggestion being that the king's person and the royal honor were in danger.

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