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Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai
in the king’s gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against
Mordecai.
10
Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called
for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
11
And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the
multitude of his children, and all
the things
wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had
advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
12
Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the
queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and
to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.
13
Yet all this availeth me nothing, so long as
I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.
14
Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits
high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou
in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows
to be made.
CHAPTER 6
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.
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.
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.
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.
5
And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said,
Let him come in.
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?
7
And Haman answered the king, For the man whom
the king delighteth to honour,
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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:
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.
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.
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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.
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