Ester 6

O rei lê as crônicas e determina honrar a Mordecai

1 *Et 5.8Naquela noite, *Dn 6.18o rei não pôde dormir; e mandou que lhe trouxessem *Et 2.23;10.2o livro dos registros das crônicas, que foi lido diante do rei. 2 Achou-se escrito que *Et 2.21-22Mordecai tinha denunciado a Bigtã e a Teres, os dois eunucos do rei, guardas da porta, que tinham procurado matar o rei Assuero. 3 Perguntou o rei: Que honra ou dignidade foi conferida a Mordecai por isso? Responderam os servos do rei que o serviam: Nada lhe foi conferido. 4 O rei disse: Quem está *Et 4.11;5.1no átrio? Ora, Hamã tinha entrado no átrio exterior da casa do rei para falar ao rei a respeito de *Et 5.14ser pendurado Mordecai na forca que lhe tinha preparado. 5 Os servos do rei lhe responderam: Eis que Hamã está esperando no átrio. O rei disse: Entre. 6 Entrou Hamã. O rei lhe disse: Que se deve fazer ao homem *Et 6.7,9,11a quem o rei deseja honrar? Ora, Hamã disse de si para si: A quem deseja o rei honrar senão a mim? 7 Respondeu Hamã ao rei: Quanto ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar, 8 sejam trazidos trajes reais de que usa o rei, e *1Rs 1.33o cavalo em que monta o rei, sobre cuja cabeça está posta *Et 1.11;2.17uma coroa real. 9 Sejam entregues os trajes e o cavalo à mão dum dos príncipes mais nobres do rei, e dos trajes vistam o homem a quem o rei deseja honrar, e façam-no andar a cavalo pela praça da cidade, e *Gn 41.43proclamem diante dele: Assim se deve fazer ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar.

10 Disse o rei a Hamã: *Et 5.5Apressa-te, toma os trajes e o cavalo, como acabas de dizer, e faze assim ao judeu Mordecai, que está sentado à porta do rei; não deixes de fazer coisa alguma de tudo quanto disseste. 11 Tomou Hamã os trajes e o cavalo, e vestiu a Mordecai, e fê-lo andar a cavalo pelas praças da cidade, e proclamou diante dele: Assim se deve fazer ao homem a quem o rei deseja honrar. 12 Mordecai voltou para a porta do rei. Hamã, porém, recolheu-se a toda a pressa para sua casa, chorando e *2Sm 15.30com a cabeça coberta. 13 Contou Hamã *Et 5.10a Zeres, sua mulher, e a todos os seus amigos tudo o que lhe havia sucedido. Então, lhe disseram os seus sábios e sua mulher Zeres: Se Mordecai, diante de qual tens começado a cair, for da linhagem dos judeus, não prevalecerá contra ele; antes, certamente, cairás diante dele. 14 Enquanto estes ainda falavam com ele, chegaram os eunucos do rei, e sem demora, *Et 5.8levaram a Hamã ao banquete que Ester tinha preparado.

1 On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king. 2 It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus. 3 The king said, "What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?"

Then the king’s servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

4 The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king’s house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

5 The king’s servants said to him, "Behold,*6:5 "Behold", from "הִנֵּה", means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection. Haman stands in the court."

The king said, "Let him come in." 6 So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?"

Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?" 7 Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8 let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a royal crown is set. 9 Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!’"

10 Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."

11 Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"

12 Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered. 13 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him." 14 While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.