On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sought to lay hand on the king Ahasuerus.
And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this? Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, There is nothing done for him.
What honour.
Judges 1:12,13 And Caleb said, He that smites Kirjathsepher, and takes it, to him …
1 Samuel 17:25,26 And the men of Israel said, Have you seen this man that is come up? …
1 Chronicles 11:6 And David said, Whoever smites the Jebusites first shall be chief …
Daniel 5:7,16,29 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, …
Acts 28:8-10 And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever …
There is nothing.
Genesis 40:23 Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgot him.
Psalm 118:8,9 It is better to trust in the LORD than to put confidence in man…
Ecclesiastes 9:15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered …
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.
Who is in the court.
Proverbs 3:27,28 Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the …
Ecclesiastes 9:10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there …
the outward.
Esther 4:11 All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, …
Esther 5:1 Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal …
to speak.
Esther 3:8-11 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus…
Esther 5:14 Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows …
Esther 7:9 And Harbonah, one of the chamberlains, said before the king, Behold …
Job 5:13 He takes the wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the …
Psalm 2:4 He that sits in the heavens shall laugh: the LORD shall have them in derision.
Psalm 33:19 To deliver their soul from death, and to keep them alive in famine.
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?
whom the king, etc. Heb. in whose honour the king delighteth.
Psalm 35:27 Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favor my righteous cause: …
Isaiah 42:1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; my elect, in whom my soul delights; …
Isaiah 62:4,5 You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any …
Jeremiah 32:41 Yes, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them …
Matthew 3:17 And see a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom …
John 5:23 That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. …
To whom.
Esther 3:2,3 And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, …
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …
Proverbs 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity …
Proverbs 16:18 Pride goes before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12 Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honor is humility.
Proverbs 30:13 There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids …
Obadiah 1:3 The pride of your heart has deceived you, you that dwell in the clefts …
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:
Let the royal, etc. Heb. Let them bring the royal apparel, wherewith the king clotheth himself.
1 Samuel 18:4 And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was on him, and gave …
Luke 15:22 But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and …
the horse. Herodotus relates, that the kings of Persia had horses peculiar to themselves, which were brought from Armenia, and were remarkable for their beauty; and if the same law prevailed in Persia as in Judea, no man, under the penalty of death, might ride on the king's horse, any more than sit on his throne, wear his crown, or hold his sceptre.
1 Kings 1:33 The king also said to them, Take with you the servants of your lord, …
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.
took Hamon.
Ezra 6:13 Then Tatnai, governor on this side the river, Shetharboznai, and …
Isaiah 60:14 The sons also of them that afflicted you shall come bending to you…
Luke 1:52 He has put down the mighty from their seats, and exalted them of low degree.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they …
and arrayed.
Esther 8:15 And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel …
Esther 9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and the …
the street. Pitts gives a similar account of the mode of honouring a person who turns a Mohammedan, at Algiers: 'The apostate is to get on a stately steed, with a rich saddle and fine trappings: he is also richly habited, and has a turban on his head, but nothing of this is to be called his own; only there are given him about two or three yards of broad cloth, which is laid before him on the saddle. The horse, with him on his back, is led all round the city, which he is several hours in doing. The apostate is attended with drums and other music, and twenty or thirty serjeants. They march in order on each side of the horse, with naked swords in their hands. The crier goes before, with a loud voice giving thanks to God for the proselyte that is made.'
And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
came again.
Esther 2:19 And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then …
1 Samuel 3:15 And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house …
Psalm 131:1,2 Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty: neither do I exercise …
hasted to his house.
2 Samuel 17:23 And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled …
1 Kings 20:43 And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and …
1 Kings 21:4 And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the …
2 Chronicles 26:20 And Azariah the chief priest, and all the priests, looked on him, …
Job 20:5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite …
having.
Esther 7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of …
2 Samuel 15:30 And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went …
Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covers the faces …
Jeremiah 14:3,4 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they …
And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every thing that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai be of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.
And while they were yet talking with him, came the king's chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.
