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On that night[H3915] could not[H5074] the king[H4428]sleep[H8142], and he commanded[H559] to bring[H935] the book[H5612] of records[H2146] of the chronicles[H1697]; and they were read[H7121]before[H6440] the king[H4428].
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And it was found[H4672]written[H3789], that Mordecai[H4782] had told[H5046] of Bigthana[H904] and Teresh[H8657], two[H8147] of the king[H4428]'s chamberlains[H5631], the keepers[H8104] of the door[H5592], who sought[H1245] to lay[H7971]hand[H3027] on the king[H4428]Ahasuerus[H325].
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And the king[H4428]said[H559], What honour[H3366] and dignity[H1420] hath been done[H6213] to Mordecai[H4782] for this? Then said[H559] the king[H4428]'s servants[H5288] that ministered[H8334] unto him, There is nothing[H1697]done[H6213] for him.
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And the king[H4428]said[H559], Who is in the court?[H2691] Now Haman[H2001] was come[H935] into the outward[H2435]court[H2691] of the king[H4428]'s house[H1004], to speak[H559] unto the king[H4428] to hang[H8518]Mordecai[H4782] on the gallows[H6086] that he had prepared[H3559] for him.
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And the king[H4428]'s servants[H5288]said[H559] unto him, Behold, Haman[H2001]standeth[H5975]in[H935] the court[H2691]. And the king[H4428]said[H559], Let him come in[H935].
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So Haman[H2001] came in[H935]. And the king[H4428]said[H559] unto him, What shall be done[H6213] unto the man[H376] whom the king[H4428]delighteth[H2654] to honour?[H3366] Now Haman[H2001]thought[H559]in[H935] his heart[H3820], To whom would the king[H4428]delight[H2654] to do[H6213]honour[H3366]more[H3148] than to myself?
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And Haman[H2001]answered[H559] the king[H4428], For the man[H376] whom the king[H4428]delighteth[H2654] to honour[H3366],
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Let the royal[H4438]apparel[H3830] be brought[H935] which the king[H4428] useth to wear[H3847], and the horse[H5483] that the king[H4428]rideth[H7392] upon, and the crown[H3804]royal[H4438] which is set[H5414] upon his head[H7218]:
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And let this apparel[H3830] and horse[H5483] be delivered[H5414] to the hand[H3027] of one[H376] of the king[H4428]'s most noble[H6579]princes[H8269], that they may array[H3847] the man[H376] withal whom the king[H4428]delighteth[H2654] to honour[H3366], and bring[H7392] him on horseback[H5483] through the street[H7339] of the city[H5892], and proclaim[H7121]before[H6440] him, Thus shall it be done[H6213] to the man[H376] whom the king[H4428]delighteth[H2654] to honour[H3366].
10
Then the king[H4428]said[H559] to Haman[H2001], Make haste[H4116], and take[H3947] the apparel[H3830] and the horse[H5483], as thou hast said[H1696], and do[H6213] even so to Mordecai[H4782] the Jew[H3064], that sitteth[H3427] at the king[H4428]'s gate[H8179]: let nothing[H1697]fail[H5307] of all that thou hast spoken[H1696].
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Then took[H3947]Haman[H2001] the apparel[H3830] and the horse[H5483], and arrayed[H3847]Mordecai[H4782], and brought him on horseback[H7392] through the street[H7339] of the city[H5892], and proclaimed[H7121]before[H6440] him, Thus shall it be done[H6213] unto the man[H376] whom the king[H4428]delighteth[H2654] to honour[H3366].
12
And Mordecai[H4782] came again[H7725] to the king's gate[H8179]. But Haman[H2001]hasted[H1765] to his house[H1004]mourning[H57], and having his head[H7218]covered[H2645].
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And Haman[H2001]told[H5608]Zeresh[H2238] his wife[H802] and all his friends[H157] every thing that had befallen[H7136] him. Then said[H559] his wise men[H2450] and Zeresh[H2238] his wife[H802] unto him, If Mordecai[H4782] be of the seed[H2233] of the Jews[H3064], before[H6440] whom thou hast begun[H2490] to fall[H5307], thou shalt not prevail[H3201] against him, but shalt surely[H5307]fall[H5307]before[H6440] him.
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And while they were yet talking[H1696] with him, came[H5060] the king's chamberlains[H5631], and hasted[H926] to bring[H935]Haman[H2001] unto the banquet[H4960] that Esther[H635] had prepared[H6213].