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6:1 the book. Five years had intervened since 6:13 you have begun to fall. Neither divine
Mordecai’s loyal but as yet unrewarded act prophecy (Ex. 17:14) nor biblical history
(2:23).At exactly the proper moment,God prov- (1 Sam. 15:8,9) stood in Haman’s favor.
identially intervened so that the king suffered Haman’s entourage seemed to have some
insomnia, called for the book of records, read knowledge of this biblical history.
of Mordecai’s unrewarded deeds 5 years past,
and then desired to reward him (Dan. 6:18).
king’s eunuchs came, and hastened to bring
Haman to the banquet which Esther had pre-
pared.
4 So the king said, “Who is in the court?”
Now Haman had just entered the outer court Psalm 90:1–6
of the king’s palace to suggest that the king
hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had pre- A Prayer of Moses the man of God.
pared for him.
ord, You have been our dwelling
5 The king’s servants said to him, “Haman is L
place in all generations.
there, standing in the court.” 2 Before the mountains were brought
And the king said, “Let him come in.”
6 So Haman came in, and the king asked forth,
him, “What shall be done for the man whom Or ever You had formed the earth and
the world,
the king delights to honor?” Even from everlasting to everlasting,
Now Haman thought in his heart, “Whom
would the king delight to honor more than You are God.
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me?” And Haman answered the king, “For the 3 You turn man to destruction,
man whom the king delights to honor, let a And say, “Return, O children
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royal robe be brought which the king has of men.”
worn, and a horse on which the king has rid-
den, which has a royal crest placed on its
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head. Then let this robe and horse be deliv-
ered to the hand of one of the king’s most 90:Title. Moses the man of God. Moses the
noble princes, that he may array the man prophet (Deut. 18:15–22) was unique in that
whom the king delights to honor. Then parade the Lord knew him “face to face” (Deut.
him on horseback through the city square, 34:10–12).“Man of God” (Deut. 33:1) is a tech-
and proclaim before him: ‘Thus shall it be nical term used over 70 times in the Old
done to the man whom the king delights to Testament, always referring to one who spoke
honor!’ ” for God. It is used of Timothy in the New
10 Then the king said to Haman, “Hurry, take Testament (1 Tim. 6:11; 2 Tim. 3:17).
the robe and the horse, as you have suggested,
and do so for Mordecai the Jew who sits with- 90:3 You turn man to destruction. The
in the king’s gate! Leave nothing undone of all unusual word for destruction has the idea of
that you have spoken.” crushed matter. Though different from the
11 So Haman took the robe and the horse, “dust” of Genesis 3:19, this phrase is no doubt
arrayed Mordecai and led him on horseback a reference to that passage. Humanity lives
through the city square, and proclaimed under a sovereign decree of death and cannot
escape it.
before him, “Thus shall it be done to the man
whom the king delights to honor!”
12 Afterward Mordecai went back to the 4 For a thousand years in
king’s gate. But Haman hurried to his house, Your sight
mourning and with his head covered. When Are like yesterday when it is past,
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Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends And like a watch in the night.
everything that had happened to him, his wise 5 You carry them away like a flood;
men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If They are like a sleep.
Mordecai, before whom you have begun to In the morning they are like grass
fall, is of Jewish descent, you will not prevail which grows up:
against him but will surely fall before him.” 6 In the morning it flourishes and
14 While they were still talking with him, the grows up;

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