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Esther 6

1 The King turneth ouer the chronicles, and findeth the fidelitie of Mordecái,10 And commandeth Haman, to cauſe Mordecái to be had in honour.
1.THE ſame night the King ſlept not, & he commanded to bring the boke of the records & the chronicles: and thei were red before the King.
2.Then it was founde writen that Mordecái had tolde of Bigtána, & Téreſh two of the Kings eunuches, kepers of the dore, who ſoght to lay hands on the King Ahaſhueróſh.
3.Thẽ the King ſaid, What honour & dignitie hathe bene giuen to Mordecái for this? And the Kings ſeruants that miniſtred vnto him, ſaid, There is nothing done for him.
4.And the King ſaid, Who is in the court? (Now Hamán was come into the inner court of the Kings houſe, that he might ſpeake vnto the King to hang Mordecái on the tre that he had prepared for him.)
5.And the Kings ſeruants ſaid vnto him, Beholde, Hamán ſtandeth in the court. And the King ſaid, Let him come in.
6.And when Haman came in, the King ſaid vnto him, What ſhalbe done vnto the mã, whome the King wil honour? Thẽ Haman thoght in his heart, To whome wolde the King do honour more then to me?
7.And Hamán anſwered the King, The man whome the King wolde honour,
8.Let thẽ bring for him royal apparel, which the King vſeth to weare, and the horſe that the King rydeth vpon, and that the crowne royal may be ſet vpon his head.
9.And let the rayment and the horſe be deliuered by the hand of one of the Kings moſte noble princes, and let them apparel the man (whome the King wil honour) & cauſe him to ride vpon the horſe through the ſtrete of the citie, & proclaime before him, Thus ſhal it be done vnto the man, whome the King wil honour.
10.Then the King ſaid to Hamán, Make haſte, take the raymẽt & the horſe as thou haſt ſaid, & do ſo vnto Mordecai ye Iewe, that ſitteth at the Kings gate: let nothing faile of all that thou haſt ſpoken.
11.So Hamán toke the raymẽt & the horſe, and arayed Mordecai, and broght him on horſe backe through the ſtrete of the citie, and proclaimed before him, Thus ſhal it be done to the man whome the King wil honour.
12.And Mordecái came againe to ye Kings gate, but Hamán haſted home mourning and his head couered.
13.And Hamán tolde Zéreſh his wife, & all his friends all that had befallen him. Thẽ ſaid his wiſe men, and Zéreſh his wife vnto him, If Mordecái be of the ſede of the Iewes, before whome thou haſt begõne to fall, thou ſhalt not preuaile againſt him, but ſhalt ſurely fall before him.
14.And while they were yet talking with him, came the Kings eunuches and haſted to bring Hamán vnto the bãket that Eſtér had prepared.

Notes

1:".
Ebr the Kings ſlepe d parted.
2:*.
Chap.2,21.
3:a.
For he thoght it vnworthie his eſtate to receiue a benefite, & not reward it.
4:b.
Thus while the wicked imagine the deſtruction of others, thei thẽ ſelues fall into the ſame pit.
8:c.
Meanig hereby, that the King ſhulde make him next vnto him ſelf, as Ioſeph hereby was knowen to be next to Pharaoh, Gen 41, 42.
13:d.
Thus God ſometime putteth in the mouthe of the very wicked, to ſpeake that thig, which he hathe decreed ſhal come to paſſe.