So Haman came in, and the king said to him, “What should be done to the  man whom the king delights to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom  would the king delight to honor more than me?” … Then the king said to  Haman, “Hurry; take the robes and the horse, as you have said, and do so  to Mordecai the Jew, who sits at the king’s gate. Leave out nothing  that you have mentioned.”   Esther 6:6, Esther 6:10     Here is one of the Bible’s great jaw-dropping moments.  Haman  was a proud and presumptuous man, and this led him to make a huge  miscalculation. His assumption, upon hearing that there was a “man whom  the king delights to honor,” was to assume that he must be that man. So  he outlined a plan for exaltation involving royal robes, a royal horse, a  crown, and public praise with no one in mind other than himself (Esther  6:8-9). We can imagine Haman’s heart swelling as he heard the king say  to him, “Hurry, take the robes and the horse, as you have said…” And  then he heard...
 
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