Esther 6

1On 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.Cross-references: Gen 22:14 · 1Sam 23:26 · Esth 2:23 · Esth 5:8 · Esth 10:2 · Isa 41:17 · +4 more

2It 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.Cross-references: Esth 2:21

3The 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.”Cross-references: Gen 40:23 · Judg 1:12 · 1Sam 17:25 · 1Chr 11:6 · Ps 118:8 · Eccl 9:15 · +4 more

4The 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.Cross-references: Esth 3:8 · Esth 4:11 · Esth 5:1 · Esth 5:14 · Esth 7:9 · Job 5:13 · +4 more

5The king’s servants said to him, “Behold, Haman stands in the court.” The king said, “Let him come in.”

6So 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?”Cross-references: Esth 3:2 · Esth 5:11 · Esth 6:7 · Esth 6:9 · Esth 6:11 · Ps 35:27 · +10 more

7Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor,Cross-references: Esth 6:9 · Esth 6:11

8let 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.Cross-references: 1Sam 18:4 · 1Ki 1:33 · Esth 1:11 · Esth 2:17 · Luke 15:22

9Let 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!’”Cross-references: Gen 41:43 · 1Ki 1:33 · Zech 9:9

10Then 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 10:10 · Dan 4:37 · Luke 14:11 · Rev 18:7

11Then 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!”Cross-references: Ezra 6:13 · Esth 8:15 · Esth 9:3 · Isa 60:14 · Luke 1:52 · Rev 3:9

12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.Cross-references: 1Sam 3:15 · 2Sam 15:30 · 2Sam 17:23 · 1Ki 20:43 · 1Ki 21:4 · 2Chr 26:20 · +6 more

13Haman 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.”Cross-references: Gen 40:19 · Gen 41:8 · 1Sam 28:19 · Esth 5:10 · Job 15:24 · Job 16:2 · +5 more

14While they were yet talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.Cross-references: Deut 32:35 · Esth 5:8 · Esth 5:14