The King Honors Mordecai
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That night the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring a the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
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And it was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, the doorkeepers who had sought to lay hands on King Ahasuerus.
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Then the king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" And the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."
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So the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered b the outer court of the king's palace c to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
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The king's servants said to him, "Haman is there, standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
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So Haman came in, and the king asked him, "What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman thought in his heart, "Whom would the king delight to honor more than d me?"
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And Haman answered the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
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"let a royal robe be brought which the king has worn, and e a horse on which the king has ridden, which has a royal crest placed on its head.
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"Then let this robe and horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that he may array the man whom the king delights to honor. Then parade him on horseback through the city square, f and proclaim before him: 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!' "
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Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry, take the robe and the horse, as you have suggested, and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits within the king's gate! Leave nothing undone of all that you have spoken."
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So Haman took the robe and the horse, arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback through the city square, and proclaimed before him, "Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!"
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Afterward Mordecai went back to the king's gate. But Haman g hurried to his house, mourning h and with his head covered.
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When Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him, 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 prevail against i him but will surely fall before him."
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Cross References
Esther 2:23
And when an inquiry was made into the matter, it was confirmed, and both were hanged on a gallows; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the presence of the king.
Esther 10:2
Now all the acts of his power and his might, and the account of the greatness of Mordecai, to which the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
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Cross References
Esther 5:1
Now it happened on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace, across from the king's house, while the king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, facing the entrance of the house.
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Cross References
Esther 5:14
Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, "Let a gallows be made, fifty cubits high, and in the morning suggest to the king that Mordecai be hanged on it; then go merrily with the king to the banquet." And the thing pleased Haman; so he had the gallows made.
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Cross References
Proverbs 16:18
Pride goes before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.
Proverbs 18:12
Before destruction the heart of a man is haughty, And before honor is humility.
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Cross References
1 Kings 1:33
The king also said to them, "Take with you the servants of your lord, and have Solomon my son ride on my own mule, and take him down to Gihon.
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Cross References
Genesis 41:43
And he had him ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried out before him, "Bow the knee!" So he set him over all the land of Egypt.
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Cross References
2 Chronicles 26:20
And Azariah the chief priest and all the priests looked at him, and there, on his forehead, he was leprous; so they thrust him out of that place. Indeed he also hurried to get out, because the LORD had struck him.
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Cross References
2 Samuel 15:30
So David went up by the Ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went barefoot. And all the people who were with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they went up.
Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles have sent their lads for water; They went to the cisterns and found no water. They returned with their vessels empty; They were ashamed and confounded And covered their heads.
Jeremiah 14:4
Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads.
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Cross References
Genesis 12:3
I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus says the LORD of hosts: "He sent Me after glory, to the nations which plunder you; for he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.
New King James Version (NKJV) Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.