Haman executed
1THAT night sleep eluded the king, so he ordered the chronicle of memorable events to be brought, and it was read to him.
2There it was found recorded how Mordecai had furnished information about Bigthana and Teresh, the two royal eunuchs among the keepers of the threshold who had plotted to assassinate King Ahasuerus.
3When the king asked what honour or dignity had been conferred on Mordecai for this, his attendants said, “Nothing has been done for him.”
4“Who is in the court?” said the king. As Haman had just then entered the outer court of the palace to propose to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on the gallows he had prepared for him,
5the king's attendants replied, “Haman is standing there in the court.” “Let him enter!” commanded the king.
6When he came in, the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king wishes to honour?” Haman thought to himself, “Whom, other than myself, would the king wish to honour?”
7So he answered, “For the man whom the king wishes to honour,
8let there be brought a royal robe which the king himself has worn, and a horse on which the king rides, with a royal diadem on its head.
9Let the robe and the horse be handed over to one of the king's noble officers, and let him invest the man whom the king wishes to honour and lead him mounted on the horse through the city square, proclaiming as he goes: ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king wishes to honour.’”
10The king said to Haman, “Take the robe and the horse at once, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew who is present at court. Let nothing be omitted of all you have proposed.”
11Haman took the robe and the horse, invested Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city square, proclaiming before him: “This is what is done for the man whom the king wishes to honour.”
12Mordecai then returned to court, while Haman in grief hurried off home with his head veiled.
13When he told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, the response he got from his advisers and Zeresh was: “If you have begun to fall before Mordecai, and he is a Jew, you cannot get the better of him; your downfall before him is certain.”
14While they were still talking with him, the king's eunuchs arrived and Haman was hurried off to the banquet Esther had prepared.
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