5. His attendants answered, ‘Haman is standing in the court.’‘Bring him in,’ the king ordered.
6. When Haman entered, the king asked him, ‘What should be done for the man the king delights to honour?’Now Haman thought to himself, ‘Who is there that the king would rather honour than me?’
7. So he answered the king, ‘For the man the king delights to honour,
8. let them bring a royal robe the king has worn and a horse the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on its head.
9. Then let the robe and horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them robe the man the king delights to honour, and lead him on the horse through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honour!” ’
10. ‘Go at once,’ the king commanded Haman. ‘Get the robe and the horse and do just as you have suggested for Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything you have recommended.’