““That night King Ahasuerus couldn’t sleep so he read the history of his empire. There he learned that Mordecai had saved his life. “I wonder how I can honor this man,” he thought. “What’s the best way for me to honor a man, Haman?” Haman thought the king wanted to honor him. “Give him your royal robes and your horse. Send a nobleman with him as he rides through the city. That man should shout, “This is the man the king honors.” “Quickly, do this for the Jew Mordecai,” ordered the king. So Haman was the nobleman who shouted in Shushan: “Mordecai is the man the king honors.””
