Chapter Six and Seven Summary
SIX
1. One night the king could not sleep, so he ordered the book of annals to be read to him.
2. It recorded the that Mordecai had exposed the assassination plot against King Xerxes.
3. The king wanted to honour and recognize Mordecai and asked Haman what should be done for a man the king wants to honour.
4. Haman thought Xerxes was talking about him so he answered the king let him have a royal robe, a horse with a royal crest placed on its head and lead him through the city streets.
5. So the king told Haman to go do these things for Mordecai.
6. Haman had to do those things and say “This is what is done for the man the king delights to honour!”
7. Haman went home and told his wife Zeresh and his advisors.
8. They warned Haman that he will come to ruin if he tried to destroy Mordecai.
SEVEN
1. The king and Haman went to Queen Esther’s banquet. The king Esther again, “What
is your petition. Whatever it is it will be granted.”
2. Queen Esther asked the king to spare her people.
3. King Xerxes asked Queen Esther who was the man who dared to do such a thing.
4.Esther told the king it was Haman.
5. Haman was terrified. The king was enraged and went out into the palace garden.
6.Haman stayed behind to beg Queen Esther for his life.
7. When the king returned Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was sitting.
8. The king thought Haman was attacking Esther.
9. He ordered Haman to be killed on the gallows that Haman had made for Mordecai.
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