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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Esther 6 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/esther/6.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/esther/6-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Esther 6</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../esther/5.htm" title="Esther 5">◄</a> Esther 6 <a href="../esther/7.htm" title="Esther 7">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/esther/6.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">The Man Whom the King Honors</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>During that night, sleep had fled from the king, so he said <i>for them</i> to bring the book of memoranda, the chronicles, and they were read before the king. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And it was found written what Mordecai had told concerning Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs from those who were doorkeepers, that they had sought to send forth <i>their</i> hand against King Ahasuerus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the king said, “What honor or greatness has been done to Mordecai for this?” Then the king’s young men who attended him said, “Nothing has been done for him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>So the king said, “Who is in the court?” Now Haman had entered the outer court of the king’s house in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had set up for him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the king’s young men said to him, “Behold, Haman is standing in the court.” And the king said, “Let him come in.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said in his heart, “Whom would the king delight to honor more than me?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then Haman said to the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor, <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>let them bring a royal robe which the king clothes himself in, and the horse on which the king has ridden, and on whose head a royal crown has been placed; <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>and let the robe and the horse be given over to the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes, and let them clothe the man whom the king delights to honor and lead him on horseback through the city square and call out before him, ‘Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.’” <p class="hdg">Mordecai Is Honored</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then the king said to Haman, “Take quickly the robes and the horse as you have said, and do so for Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate; do not fall short in anything of all that you have spoken.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So Haman took the robe and the horse and clothed Mordecai and led him <i>on horseback</i> through the city square and called out before him, “Thus it shall be done to the man whom the king delights to honor.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman hastened home, mourning, with <i>his</i> head covered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And Haman 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 the seed of the Jews, you will not overcome him, but will surely fall before him.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/esther/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>While they were still speaking with him, the king’s eunuchs reached <i>Haman’s home</i> and hastily brought Haman to the feast which Esther had prepared.</div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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