ES-6:1  On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded

to bring the book

of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

ES-6:2  And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of

Bigthana and Teresh, two

of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought

to lay hand on the

king Ahasuerus.

ES-6:3  And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been

done to Mordecai for

this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him,

There is nothing done

for him.

ES-6:4  And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman was

come into the

outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to

hang Mordecai on the

gallows that he had prepared for him.

ES-6:5  And the king's servants said unto him, Behold, Haman

standeth in the court.

And the king said, Let him come in.

ES-6:6  So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall

be done unto the

man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his

heart, To whom

would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

ES-6:7  And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king

delighteth to honour,

ES-6:8  Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [useth]

to wear, and the

horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is

set upon his head:

ES-6:9  And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand

of one of the king's

most noble princes, that they may array the man [withal] whom

the king delighteth to

honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the

city, and proclaim

before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king

delighteth to honour.

ES-6:10  Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, [and] take the

apparel and the

horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew,

that sitteth at the

king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken.

ES-6:11  Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed

Mordecai, and

brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and

proclaimed before him,

Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to

honour.

ES-6:12  And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman

hasted to his house

mourning, and having his head covered.

ES-6:13  And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends

every [thing] that had

befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto

him, If Mordecai [be]

of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall,

thou shalt not prevail

against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

ES-6:14  And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the

king's chamberlains,

and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had

prepared.

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