Esther 6

Revised Geneva Translation

6 That night, the king did not sleep. And he commanded that the Book of the Records be brought, and the Chronicles. And they were read before the king.

² Then, it was found written what Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.

³ Then the king said, “What honor and dignity has been given to Mordecai for this?” And the king’s servants said, “Nothing.”

⁴ And the king said, “Who is in the court?” (Now Haman had come into the inner court of the king’s house to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him).

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

⁶ And when Haman came in, the king said to him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king will honor?” Then Haman thought in his heart, “To whom would the king do honor more than to me?”

⁷ And Haman answered the king, “The man whom the king would honor,

⁸ “should be brought the royal apparel which the king used to wear, and the horse that the king used to ride on, with the crown royal set upon his head.

⁹ “And let the clothing and the horse be delivered by the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes. And let them dress the man whom the king will honor and have him ride upon the horse through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king will honor.’”

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

¹¹ So Haman took the clothing and the horse, and dressed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, “This is what is done for the man whom the king will honor!”

¹² And Mordecai came back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried home, mourning, with his head covered.

¹³ And Haman told Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends, all 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 origin, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.”

¹⁴ And while they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs came and quickly brought Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.