Esther and Influence

Some of these Old Testament books are best read in one sitting. Nehemiah is one of those. So is Esther. I noticed in Esther that alot of people influenced other people to do good or bad things.
This is what I discovered in each chapter.

Chapter:

1-When Queen Vashti refused to be influenced by her intoxicated husband to show off her beauty to his intoxicated guests, his advisers closest to him influenced him to strike down the potential of other wives showing excessive contempt towards their husbands by advising him to remove QV as queen.
He did so. Does anyone ever feel sorry for poor Queen Vashti?

2-The King's servants influenced the appeased lonely king to look for a new virgin queen. Hegai, the king's eunuch and advisor to the young women who were being primed for queenship, influenced Esther to go before the king without alot of clutter and glitz (my interpretation) and to go into his presence with her own sweet smiling self and that sweet smiling self is what influenced the king to pick her as his new queen. (God also gave her favor and grace in his sight because He had this all worked out ahead of time.)

3-Haman influenced the king to agree to destroy a people by painting a threatening picture with evil words of God's chosen Jews.

4-Mordecai influenced Esther to go before the king to plead for the life of the Jews by using the influential words, "Perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this."

5-Haman's nasty wife fed into Haman's jealousy and influenced him to build gallows for which to hang the object of his wrath-Mordecai.

6-When the king asked Haman how to honor an important man, Haman influenced the king by telling him to honor the important man by putting on him the king's royal robe and letting him ride the king's horse, etc. and parade him on the streets and proclaim, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor." The king loved the idea and ordered Haman to do exactly as he said for Mordecai. (Which influenced Haman to develop a terrible case of the duldrums and overwhelming dread and probably a terrific migraine to boot. Also, it is safe to say that his wife was not exactly an influence of comfort in this alarming situation.)

7-Queen Esther's appeal for the life of her people influenced the king to sympathize with the Jews and be furious with Haman. Haman's posture towards the queen in his terror (he got a little too close for comfort) influenced the king to yell the words,"Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?" Which influenced the servants to cover Haman's face because they knew if was all over for him.

8-A eunuch influenced the king to hang Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Esther influenced the king to write a decree so that the Jews could defend themselves against the attacks of the enemy. The honoring of the Jews and the fear that accompanied that honoring influenced many non-Jews to become Jews rather quickly.

9-Mordecai's fame and power influenced those in leadership to help the Jews. Esther influenced the king to allow the Jews to fight again the next day and to hang Haman's 10 sons on the gallows.
Mordecai influenced the Jews to have these days--the days of their deliverance and victory--to be proclaimed as a national holiday as a celebration to influence them to remember that God gave them rest from their enemies and that their sorrow was turned into joy.

10-Mordecai, the Jew, was a man of great influence, second to King Ahasuerus, great among the Jews, well received by the multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people and speaking peace to all his countrymen.

(Webster's)
Influence-"the power of persons or things to affect others"

Oh, that we would use the power of our influence for the glory of God and for the good of our fellow man.