Ester 6
6
1On 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.
2And it was found written, that Mordekhai [little man] had told of Bigtana [in their winepress] and Teresh [strictness], two of the king’s chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Achashverosh [I will be silent and poor].
3And the king said, What honour and dignity has been done to Mordekhai [little man] for this? Then said the king’s servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
4And the king said, Who [is] in the court? Now Haman [magnificent] was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordekhai [little man] on the gallow (to approve, commend, accept)s that he had prepared for him.
5And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman [magnificent] stands in the court. And the king said, Let him come in.
6So Haman [magnificent] came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delights to honour? Now Haman [magnificent] thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
7And Haman [magnificent] answered the king, For the man whom the king delights to honour,
8Let the royal apparel be brought which the king [uses] to wear, and the horse that the king rides upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:
9And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array (to put on; to clothe) the man [withal] whom the king delights 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 delights to honour.
10Then the king said to Haman [magnificent], Make haste, [and] take the apparel and the horse, as youi have said, and do even so to Mordekhai [little man] the Jew, that sits at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that youi have spoken.
11Then took Haman [magnificent] the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordekhai [little man], 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 delights to honour.
12And Mordekhai [little man] came again to the king’s gate. But Haman [magnificent] hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
13And Haman [magnificent] told Zeresh [gold] his wife and all his friends every [thing] that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh [gold] his wife unto him, If Mordekhai [little man] [be] of the seed of the Y’hudim (Judeans), before whom youi have begun to fall, youi shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.
14And while they [were] yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman [magnificent] unto the banquet that Ester [star] had prepared.
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