1. That same night the king could not get to sleep, so he ordered the official records of the empire to be brought and read to him.
2. The part they read included the account of how Mordecai had uncovered a plot to assassinate the king — the plot made by Bigthana and Teresh, the two palace eunuchs who had guarded the king's rooms.
3. The king asked, “How have we honoured and rewarded Mordecai for this?”His servants answered, “Nothing has been done for him.”
4. “Are any of my officials in the palace?” the king asked.Now Haman had just entered the courtyard; he had come to ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on the gallows that was now ready.
5. So the servants answered, “Haman is here, waiting to see you.”“Show him in,” said the king.
6. So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “There is someone I wish very much to honour. What should I do for this man?”Haman thought to himself, “Now who could the king want to honour so much? Me, of course.”
7-8. So he answered the king, “Order royal robes to be brought for this man — robes that you yourself wear. Order a royal ornament to be put on your own horse.