5. The king’s servants answered, “Haman is standing in the courtyard.” The king said, “Let him come in.”
6. When Haman entered, the king asked him, “What should be done for a man whom the king desires to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor rather than me?”
7. So Haman replied, “For the man whom the king desires to honor,
8. let them bring a royal robe that the king has worn, and a horse on which the king has ridden, one with a royal crest placed on his head.
9. Then let the robe and the horse be placed into the hand of one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them clothe the man whom the king desires to honor and parade him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming, ‘This is what is done for a man the king desires to honor!’”