21. In those days, while MORDECAI was sitting in the king's gate, two of the king's eunuchs, Bigthan and Teresh, who were doorkeepers, were angry, and sought to lay hands on the King Ahasuerus.

22. This thing became known to MORDECAI, who informed Esther the queen; and Esther informed the king in MORDECAI's name.

23. When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king's presence.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. The king said, "What honor and dignity has been given to MORDECAI for this?"Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him."

4. 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.

5. The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman stands in the court."The king said, "Let him come in."

6. 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?"

7. Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delights to honor,

8. 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.

9. 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!'"

10. 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."

11. 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!"