The World English Bible (WEB): Esther — John Shaqi
The World English Bible (WEB): EstherAnonymous
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The World English Bible (WEB): Esther
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Bible. Esther
and tomorrow I am also invited by her together with the king.
005:013 Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai
the Jew sitting at the king's gate."
005:014 Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him,
"Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the
morning speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on it.
Then go in merrily with the king to the banquet."
This pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
006:001 On 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.
006:002 It 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.
006:003 The 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."
006:004 The 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.
006:005 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court."
The king said, "Let him come in."
006:006 So 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?"
006:007 Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,
006:008 let 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.
006:009 Let 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!'"
006:010 Then 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."
006:011 Then 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!"
006:012 Mordecai came back to the king's gate, but Haman hurried
to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
006:013 Haman recounted to Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything
that had happened to him. Then his wise men and Zeresh his wife
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