The King Honors Mordecai
1 On that night the king could not sleep. And he gave orders to bring ch. 2:23;10:2the book of memorable deeds, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written how ch. 2:22Mordecai had told about [ch. 1:10;2:21] Bigthana6:2 Bigthana is an alternate spelling of Bigthan (see 2:21) and ch. 2:21Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who guarded the threshold, and who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus. 3 And the king said, "What honor or distinction has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" The king’s young men who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." 6 So Haman came in, and the king said to him, "What should be done to the man ver. 7, 9, 11whom the king delights to honor?" And Haman said to himself, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?" 10 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so to Mordecai the Jew, who sits See ch. 2:19at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing that you have mentioned." 11 So Haman took the robes and the horse, and he dressed Mordecai and led him through the square of the city, proclaiming before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor."