11. So Haman took the robe and the horse and put the robe on Mordecai. He led him on horseback through the city square, shouting as he went, "This is what the king does for the man he really wants to honor!"
12. Afterward, Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, while Haman hurried home feeling great shame, his head covered.
13. Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened to him. Both his friends and his wife said to him, "You’ve already begun to lose out to Mordecai. If he is of Jewish birth, you’ll not be able to win against him. You are surely going to lose out to him."
14. They were still discussing this with him when several royal eunuchs arrived. They quickly hurried Haman off to the feast that Esther had prepared.