* the king's servants.
   Dr. Shaw, speaking of the cities in the East, says, "If we
   quit the streets, and enter into any of the principal houses,
   we shall first pass through a porch, or gate-way, with benches
   on each side, where the master of the family receives visits,
   and despatches business; few persons, not even the nearest
   relations, having admission any farther, except upon
   extraordinary occasions."  These servants were probably
   officers who here waited the king's call; and it is likely
   that Mordecai was one of them.

  2:19,21 
 * bowed.
  Ge 41:43  Php 2:10 
 * bowed not.
   {Yichr(8320)welo yishtachaweh,} "bowed not down, nor prostrated
   himself," or worshipped him.  Had this meant only civil
   reverence the king would not have needed to command it; nor
   would Mordecai have refused it; there was, therefore, some
   kind of divine honour intended, such as was paid to the
   Persian kings, and which even the Greeks refused, as express
   adoration.

  1,5  Ex 17:14,16  De 25:19  1Sa 15:3  Ps 15:4