Esther 6:11–14

Mordecai is honored

So Haman got the robe and the horse. He robed Mordecai, and led him on horseback through the city streets, proclaiming before him, “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!”

12 Afterward Mordecai returned to the king’s gate. But Haman rushed home, with his head covered in grief, 13 and told Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had happened to him.

His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has started, is of Jewish origin, you cannot stand against him—you will surely come to ruin!” 14 While they were still talking with him, the king’s eunuchs arrived and hurried Haman away to the banquet Esther had prepared.

This reversal of fortunes was so shocking that Haman’s wife and advisors—and no doubt Haman himself—were convinced that he was doomed. Suddenly, before he could gather his thoughts, he was swept off to the queen’s banquet. Certainly the hope must have flashed through his mind, “I can still be saved since I enjoy the special favor of the queen.”