Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, "There is nothing done for him."
And the king said, "Who is in the court?"
Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
And the king's servants said unto him, "Behold, Haman standeth in the court."
And the king said, "Let him come in."
So Haman came in. And the king said to him, "What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honor?"
Now Haman said in his heart, "To whom would the king delight to do honor more than to myself?"
And Haman said to the king, "For the man whom the king delighteth to honor, let royal apparel be brought which the king is accustomed to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head: and let the apparel and the horse be delivered to the hand of one of the king's most noble princes, that they may array the man therewith whom the king delighteth to honor, and cause him to ride on horseback through the street of the city, and proclaim before him, 'Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delighteth to honor.'"
Then the king said to Haman, "Make haste, and take the apparel and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew, that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast spoken."