Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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The King Honors Mordecai
1 That same night the king could
not get to sleep, so he had the
official records of the empire
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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. note
3 The king
asked, “How have we honored and
rewarded Mordecai for this?”
3 His servants answered, “Nothing
has been done for him.”
4 “Are any of my officials in the
palace?” the king asked.
4 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.”
5 “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 honor. What
should I do for this man?”
6 Haman thought to himself, “Now
who could the king want to honor so
much? Me, of course.”
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8 So he answered the king,
“Have royal robes brought for this
man—robes that you yourself wear.
Have a royal ornament note put on your
own horse.
9 Then have one of your
highest noblemen dress the man in
these robes and lead him, mounted
on the horse, through the city
square. Have the nobleman announce
as they go: ‘See how the king
rewards a man he wishes to honor!’”
10 Then the king said to Haman,
“Hurry and get the robes and the
horse, and provide these honors for
Mordecai the Jew. Do everything for
him that you have suggested. You
will find him sitting at the entrance
of the palace.”
11 So Haman got the robes and the
horse, and he put the robes on Mordecai.
Mordecai got on the horse,
and Haman led him through the city
square, announcing to the people as
they went: “See how the king rewards
a man he wishes to honor!”
12 Mordecai then went back to the
palace entrance while Haman hurried
home, covering his face in embarrassment.
13 He told his wife and
all his friends everything that had
happened to him. Then she and
those wise friends of his told him,
“You are beginning to lose power to
Mordecai. He is a Jew, and you cannot
overcome him. He will certainly
defeat you.”
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Haman Is Put to Death
14 While they were still talking, the
palace eunuchs arrived in a hurry to
take Haman to Esther's banquet.
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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