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Esther 6:4–11, “And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him. And the king’s servants said unto him, Behold, Haman standeth in the court. And the king said, Let him come in. So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself? And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour, Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: And let this apparel and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may array the man withal whom the king delighteth to honour, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honour. Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king’s gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken. Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour.”
Haman came to the court felling very happy because he thought that everything was going so well in his life. He planned to ask the king if he could execute Mordecai on the gallows that his wife had advised him to make. The king, on the other hand, was troubled by the fact that Mordecai had done a great service to the crown but had not been rewarded. The king wanted to know how he could do something for Mordecai as a reward. The king’s servants told him that Haman was in the court so the king decided to ask his advice on how to reward Mordecai. The king asked Haman how he could reward a man whom he desired to honour. Haman was so committed to his mission and couldn’t conceive that the king might want to honour anyone else, he thought the honour would be for himself so he told the king what he wanted to happen to him. He thought that it would be a great honour if he could dress up as the king, ride the kings personal horse and be paraded around the city led by one of the most important men in the whole kingdom. As this happened someone would walk along telling everyone that this was the way that king honoured special people. Just as he was about to prepare himself for this great honour, the king told him that he wanted to honour Mordecai and that he would have to lead the horse around the city calling out that the king wanted to honour Mordecai.
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