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Mordecai Honored and Haman Humiliated

Esther 6:1-14

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Chapter 6
1 That night the king's sleep fled, and he commanded the book of the memorials, the chronicles, to be brought, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written that Mordecai had told about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs from the keepers of the threshold, who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3 And the king said, "What honor and greatness have we done to Mordecai for this?" Then his king's young men, his servants, said, "Nothing has been done for him." 4 And the king said, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had come into the outer courtyard of the king's house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. 5 And the king's servants said to him, "Look, Haman is standing in the courtyard." And the king said, "Let him come in." 6 And Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said in his heart, "Whom does the king delight to honor more than me?" 7 And Haman said to the king: "A man whom the king delights to honor." 8 let them bring the royal clothing that the king has worn and the horse that the king has ridden, on whose head a royal crown has been placed. 9 And give the clothing and the horse into the hand of one of the king's officials, a Parthian, and have them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor and lead him on the horse through the street of the city, calling before him, "This is how it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor." 10 And the king said to Haman, "Hurry, take the garment and the horse just as you spoke, and do in this way to Mordecai the Jew who sits in the king's gate—do not fall short a word from all that you spoke." 11 And Haman took the garment and the horse, dressed Mordecai in the garment, and led him on horseback through the city square, calling before him, "Thus shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor." 12 And Mordecai returned to the king's gate, and Haman hurried to his house mourning and with his head covered. 13 And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. His wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai is from the seed of the Jews before whom you have begun to fall, you will not be able to stand against him, but you will surely fall before him." 14 While they were still speaking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and hurried him off to the banquet that Esther had prepared.