1On that night, the king couldn't sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.

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Daniel 6:18, Daniel 6:18, Daniel 2:1, Daniel 2:1, Esther 2:23

2It was found written that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's eunuchs, who were doorkeepers, who had tried to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

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Esther 2:21, Esther 2:22, Esther 2:21, Esther 2:22

3The king said, "What honor and dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

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Ecclesiastes 9:15, Ecclesiastes 9:15, Genesis 40:23, Genesis 40:23, Daniel 5:29

4The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

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Esther 5:14, Esther 5:14, Esther 4:11, Esther 4:11, Esther 5:1

5The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court." The king said, "Let him come in."

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6So Haman came in. The king said to him, "What shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor?" Now Haman said in his heart, "Who would the king delight to honor more than myself?"

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Proverbs 16:18, Obadiah 1:3, Proverbs 16:18, Obadiah 1:3, Proverbs 18:12

7Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

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Esther 6:9, Esther 6:11, Esther 6:9, Esther 6:11

8let royal clothing be brought which the king uses to wear, and the horse that the king rides on, and on the head of which a crown royal is set.

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1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 1:33, Luke 15:22, 1 Samuel 18:4, Esther 1:11

9Let the clothing and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man whom the king delights to honor with them, and have him ride on horseback through the city square, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honor!'"

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Genesis 41:43, Genesis 41:43, 1 Kings 1:33, 1 Kings 1:34, 1 Kings 1:33

10Then the king said to Haman, "Hurry and take the clothing and the horse, as you have said, and do this for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken."

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Daniel 4:37, Luke 14:11, 2 Kings 10:10, Revelation 18:7, Daniel 4:37

11Then Haman took the clothing and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and had him ride 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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Luke 1:52, Luke 1:52, Esther 9:3, Ezra 6:13, Isaiah 60:14

12Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

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2 Samuel 15:30, 2 Samuel 15:30, Jeremiah 14:3, Jeremiah 14:4, Jeremiah 14:3

13Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife said to him, "If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail against him, but you will surely fall before him."

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Proverbs 28:18, Proverbs 28:18, Hosea 14:9, Hosea 14:9, Genesis 41:8

14While they were yet talking with him, the king's eunuchs came, and hurried to bring Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

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Esther 5:8, Esther 5:8, Esther 5:14, Deuteronomy 32:35, Deuteronomy 32:36