Mordecai Is Honored
That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, 1 to be brought in and read to him. Dan 2:1Dan 6:18Est 2:23Est 5:8Isa 41:17Rom 11:331Sa 23:26-27Est 10:2 And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana 2and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes. Est 2:21-22
The king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” Ecc 9:15Gen 40:231Ch 11:61Sa 17:25-26Act 28:8-10Dan 5:16Dan 5:29Dan 5:7
“Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Est 5:14Est 4:11Est 5:1Psa 2:4Ecc 9:10Est 3:8-11Est 7:9Job 5:13
Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him. So the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.”
“Bring him in,” ordered the king.
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Pro 16:18Oba 1:3Est 6:9Isa 42:1Isa 62:4-5Jer 32:41Mat 3:17Pro 18:12
Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
And Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor, Est 6:11Est 6:9 have them bring a royal robe that the king himself has worn and a horse on which the king himself has ridden—one with a royal crest placed on its head. 1Ki 1:331Sa 18:4Est 1:11Est 2:17Luk 15:22 Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’” Gen 41:431Ki 1:33-34Zec 9:9
“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.” Dan 4:372Ki 10:10Rev 18:7Luk 14:11
So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai, and paraded him through the city square, crying out before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!” Est 9:3Luk 1:52Est 8:15Ezr 6:13Isa 60:14Rev 3:9
Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief. 2Sa 15:30Jer 14:3-41Ki 21:4Job 20:51Ki 20:431Sa 3:152Ch 26:202Sa 17:23
Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.” Pro 28:18Hos 14:9Gen 40:19Dan 2:12Dan 5:26-28Gen 41:81Sa 28:19-20Est 5:10-14
While they were still speaking with Haman, the king’s eunuchs arrived and rushed him to the banquet that Esther had prepared. Est 5:8Deu 32:35-36Est 5:14