⁵ Haman was furious when he saw that Mordekhai was not kneeling and bowing down to him.

¹¹ Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and everything connected with how the king had promoted him and given him precedence over the other officials and servants of the king.

¹³ Yet none of this does me any good at all, as long as I keep seeing Mordekhai the Jew remaining seated at the King’s Gate.”

⁶ So Haman came in. The king said to him, “What should be done for a man that the king wants to honor?” Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king want to honor more than me?”

¹⁰ So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordekhai. Then the king’s anger subsided.