6So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, “What shall be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?” Now Haman thought in his heart, “To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?” 7And Haman answered the king, “For the man whom the king delights to honor, 8Let the royal apparel be brought which the king is accustomed to wear, and the horse that the king rides upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head; 9And 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 whom the king delights to honor, and bring him on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, ‘Thus shall it be done for the man whom the king delights to honor’”. 10Then the king said to Haman, “Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as you have said, and do even so to Mordecai, the Jew, who sits at the king's gate. Let nothing fail of all that you have spoken”. 11Then Haman took 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 for the man whom the king delights to honor”.

12And Mordecai returned to the king's gate. But Haman hastened to his house mourning, and having his head covered. 13And Haman told Zeresh, his wife, and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh, his wife, to him, “If Mordecai is of Jewish heritage, before whom you have begun to fall, you shall not prevail against him, but shall surely fall before him.”

14And while they were yet talking with him, the king's chamberlains came, and hurriedly brought Haman to the banquet that Esther had prepared.