The King Plans to Honor Mordecai
1 During that night 6:1 Lit the king’s sleep fledthe king could not sleep, so he gave an order to bring the book of records, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. 2 And it was found written what Mordecai had reported about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to 6:2 Or kill; lit put out a hand againstattack King Ahasuerus. 3 Then the king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" And the king’s servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." 6 Haman then came in and the king said to him, "What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?" And Haman said 6:6 Lit in his heartto himself, "Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?"
Haman Must Honor Mordecai
10 Then the king said to Haman, "Quickly, take the robe and the horse just as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fail to do anything of all that you have said." 11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, and dressed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "So it shall be done for the man whom the king desires to honor."