The king honors Mordecai
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📚On that night the king could not sleep 📖, and he gave orders to bring the book of records of the chronicles 📖; and they were read in the king’s presence. 2 📚And it was found written that Mordecai made a report about Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s officials, the doorkeepers who sought a way to seize King Ahasuerus. 3 📚And the king said 📖, “What honour and dignity was bestowed on Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s servants that ministered to him said, “Nothing was done for him”.
4 📚And the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king’s house, to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
6:4 God’s timing of events is perfect. Always He not only does the best possible thing, He does it at the best possible moment.⚜
5 And the king’s servants said to him, “Look, Haman is standing in the court”. And the king said, “Have him come in”.
6 📚So Haman came in. And the king said to him, “What is to be done to the man whom the king delights to honour?” Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honour more than myself?”
7 📚And Haman answered the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honour, 8 📚let a royal robe which the king has worn be brought, and the horse upon which the king rides, and the royal crown which is placed on his head, 9 📚and let this robe and horse be put in the hands of one of the king’s most noble princes, that they may clothe the man whom the king delights to honour with it, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus it is done to the man whom the king delights to honour.’ ”
6:9 Compare Gen 41:41-43. In those days this was regarded as a mark of great favor and honor. Spiritually speaking, believers in Christ have the high honor of being clothed with the robe of the heavenly king – Isa 61:10; Zech 3:3-5; Phil 3:9.⚜
10 📚Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry and take the robe and the horse, as you have said, and do this to Mordecai 📖 the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate 📖. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken”.
11 📚Then Haman took the robe and the horse, and clothed Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, “Thus it is done to the man whom the king delights to honour”.
12 📚And Mordecai came back to the king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house grieving, with his head covered. 13 📚And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him”.
14 📚And while they were still talking with him, the king’s officials came, in a hurry to bring Haman to the banquet 📖 that Esther had prepared.