Esther comic strip-5
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- Then he invited his friends to his house and asked his wife Zeresh. He boasted to them how rich he was, how many sons he had, how the king had promoted him to high office, and how much more important he was than any of the king's other officials.
- What is more, Queen Esther gave a banquet for no one but the king and me, and we are invited back tomorrow. But none of this means a thing to me as long as I see that Jew Mordecai sitting at the entrance of the palace.
- Why don't you have a gallows built, twenty-two metres tall ? Tomorrow morning you can ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it, and then you can go to the banquet happy.
- Haman thought this was a good idea, so he had the gallows built.
- How have we honoured and rewarded Mordecai for this ?
- Are any of my officials in the palace ?
- Now Haman had just entered the courtyard; he had come to ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on the gallows that was now ready
- Show him in
- That same night the king could not get to sleep, so he ordered the official records of the empire to be bought and read to him. The part they read included the account of how Mordecai had uncovered a plot to assassinate the king the plot was made by Bigdan and Teresh, the two palace eunuchs who had guarded the king's rooms.
- Haman is here, waiting to see you.
- Nothing has been done for him
- Hurry and get the robes and the horse, and provide these honours for Mordecai the Jew. Do everything for him that you have suggested. You will find sitting at the entrance of the palace .
- There is someone I wish very much to honour. What should I do for this man?
- Order royal robes to be brought for this man-robes that you yourself wear. Order a royal ornament to be put on your own horse.Then get one of your highest noblemen to dress the man in these robes and lead him, mounted on the horse, through the city square. Let the nobleman announce as they go:'See how the king rewards a man he wishes to honour.
- Now who could the king want to honour so much ? Me, of course
- After that Mordecai then went back to the palace entrance while Haman hurried home, covering his face with embarrassment. He told his wife and all his friends that everything happened to him.
- You are a beginning to lose power to Mordecai. He is a Jew, and you cannot overcome him. He will certainly defeat you.
- While they were still talking, the palace eunuchs arrived in a hurry to take Haman to Esther's banquet. And so the the king and Haman went to eat with Esther.
- If it, please Your Majesty to grant my humble request, my wish is that I may live and that my people may live. My people and I have been sold for slaughter. If it were nothing more serious than being sold to slavery, I would have kept quiet and not bothered you about it; but we are about to be destroyed- exterminated !
- Now, Queen Esther, what do you want ? Tell me and you shall have it. I'II even give you half the empire.
- Our enemy,our persecutor, is this evil Haman !
- Who dares to do such a thing ? Where is this man?
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